Quotes About Denys

#1. Don't be difficult, Denys," Nell chided. "All women like a little flattery from time to time." "What if they didn't? What if they simply liked themselves and no one needed to bend backwards to flatter them? Wouldn't it all be simpler then?

Paula McLain

#2. Denys understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.

Paula McLain

#3. We will not be recasting J.J. Murphy. He was a lovely man, and the best Denys Mallister we could have hoped for. And now his watch is ended.

D. B. Weiss

#4. Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page] in the German and British academic tradition.

Camille Paglia

#5. Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.

Beryl Markham

#6. She's an old lady from times back. Her clothes have the smell of her sheep and that rusty smell of the ancient trunk in which she keeps her things.

Denys Johnson-Davies

#7. Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice.

P.T. Denys

#8. You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

Glen Duncan

#9. The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be.

Yanni

#10. For, quite clearly, the mighty gifts with which we are endowed are hardly from ourselves; indeed, our very being is nothing but subsistence in the one God.

John Calvin

#11. Every day gives you an opportunity to improve. With every run, you can try to be better. Not just a better runner, but a better person.

John Bingham

#12. Reilly Brown is a master of balancing action, humor, and extreme violence, and his character designs for some of the alien races and technology that we encounter is just amazing.

Cullen Bunn

#13. If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade ...

Ron White