Diran Quotes

#1. What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood? Que diran de mi poesia los que no tocaron mi sangre?

Pablo Neruda

#2. We who fly do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#3. What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.

Diana Vreeland

#4. On the unhampered market there prevails an irresistible tendency to employ every factor of production for the best possible satisfaction of the most urgent needs of the consumers. If the government interfered with this process, it can only impair satisfaction; it can never improve it.

Ludwig Von Mises

#5. Doing the Right Thing - Sometimes doing the right thing, is to do nothing at all.

Mike Kafka

#6. In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.

Eric Liu

#7. Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#8. Here and here only in all time the myth must have become fact; the Word, flesh; God, Man. This is not 'a religion', nor 'a philosophy.' It is the summing up and actuality of them all.

C.S. Lewis

#9. I don't do much to keep in trim - I try to walk places instead of driving whenever I can, but I really ought to do more.

Robert Webb

#10. Television is never more false than when it's openly sincere.

Mort Sahl

#11. I fell silent after that. I didn't want to talk about such things anymore, at least today. My chest already hurt and I was trying to keep my mind calm. I didn't want to think of a future so bleak and dark. I had plans for my future and they didn't involve the world ending or society collapsing.

J.M. Northup

#12. Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

Bertrand Russell

#13. I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

Richard K. Diran