Dismas House Quotes

#1. We live not in our moments or our years:
The present we fling from us like the rind
Of some sweet future, which we after find
Bitter to taste.

Richard Chenevix Trench

#2. She hated money! though she knew it was like blood and you needed it. Still, it was also like blood in that she often couldn't stand the sight of it.

Lorrie Moore

#3. I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd ... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.

Zachary Levi

#4. I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist movement. I've felt pressure when reporters asked me, "Do you believe in God?" I do say, "No. I believe in people."

Gloria Steinem

#5. Remember when life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.

Laura Miller

#6. We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.

Virginia Postrel

#7. Interpreting gives me a chance to do what I do well and have done since I was a kid. At one time, I might have wanted to be an actor or performer, and it somehow fulfills that in a non-threatening way.

Jack Jason

#8. The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.

Ramana Maharshi

#9. Also, I was something of an expert on headaches. They were a hobby of mine.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

T. S. Eliot

#11. If my fans want to call me a love God, then so be it!

Alexander O'Neal

#12. It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

Robert Baden-Powell

#13. I need some me-time. I have to remember to rest, because I have a natural energy and I don't want to burn out.

Lea Michele

#14. There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand.

Will Durant