Dillettantism Quotes

#1. However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices ... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism.

Max Weber

#2. The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

Horace

#3. I hated that I felt jealous. Hated it. It's not like I'd been on my own waiting for him, just like he hadn't been waiting alone for me. We had lived, for two years. Made choices and mistakes, had good days and bad days.

Megan Miranda

#4. The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. oil companies are nationalities. This plane oughta say EXXON on the side instead of U. S. Navy

James W. Blinn

#6. I am sure all politicians will be convinced of the merits of this deal.

Lakshmi Mittal

#7. Moving forward is not based upon your past; your future is exclusively determined by the decisions you make now, in this moment.

Mike Michalowicz

#8. There is nothing, no sound, and we are thinking very unhappy thoughts as we kneel down and perform our watery pantomime one more time.

Jeff Lindsay

#9. We are all sleeping avatars of God, with amnesia.

Philip K. Dick

#10. I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

James Jones

#12. The youth have a prodigious talent for inventing progressive ideas and alternative courses of action that elude the jaded, in-the-box minds of worn-down adults.

Ian Somerhalder

#13. The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow.

William Henry Ashley

#14. But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

Maya Angelou

#15. Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.

Julie Andrews Edwards