Diotimas Ladder Quotes

#1. You let all your clients rest their hands on your ass?

K.J. Lewis

#2. It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss.

Cornell Woolrich

#3. Suppose, for instance, that the President of the United States has committed the crime of high treason; the House of Representatives impeaches him, and the Senate degrades him; he must then be tried by a jury, which alone can deprive him of his liberty or his life.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#4. If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it.

Terry Josephson

#5. Why should "Honor thy father and thy mother" be a commandment, and "Honor thy child" not?

Harry Mulisch

#6. One person is always too many around me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

Dorothy Day

#8. Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion.

Victor J. Stenger

#9. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Jeremy Collier

#10. Now some people will tell you that great writing cannot be learnt. Such people should be hit repeatedly on the nose until they promise not to talk nonsense any more.

Mark Forsyth

#11. Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

Ed Parker

#12. Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.

John Lydon

#13. Whenever Christ calls us, His call leads us to death.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#14. A decent, educated man cannot afford the luxury of vanity without being exceedingly exacting with himself and without occasionally despising himself to the point of hatred.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. To wonder is to begin to understand.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset