Durdum Quotes

#1. Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

Jane Austen

#2. Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.

Robert A. Dahl

#3. Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.

Ovid

#4. Law Number XVI: In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3-1/2 days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#5. I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry.

James Lankford

#6. The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John Keats

#7. I could not have known
what love is if I had never

felt this longing. Anything
done to excess becomes

boring, except this overflow
that moves toward you.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#8. That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

Joanna Lumley

#9. To me, America is a symbol of all different views, different types of people coming together.

Zendaya

#10. Is there any reason you wish to preserve amity with the Shadowhunters, besides the fact that one of them is your lover?

Cassandra Clare

#11. Some women say as they get older they're no longer noticed: they disappear. Men, for instance, don't see them. Nobody wants them. That doesn't happen to me because of who I am. Not because I'm any more scintillating company, but because I'm Ruth Rendell.

Ruth Rendell

#12. I don't drive to places where I want to go. My mother takes me or my brother.

Abigail George

#13. This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

Dorothee Solle