Quotes About Desiderata

#1. For the entire Desiderata go to Inspirational Poems page

Max Ehrmann

#2. 'Jump Street,' I knew we had a great time. It didn't matter, didn't know if it was going to do well.

Channing Tatum

#3. I want my Canada back!

Justin Trudeau

#4. Sweets and Tarts: The Most Wonderous Bakery in All of Hearts

Marissa Meyer

#5. The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.

Bruce Lee

#6. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Max Ehrmann

#7. Scary movies scare me. The Exorcist is really scary.

John Molina Jr.

#8. I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#9. I'm a synthesizer. We need to synthesize more the relationships between artists and scientists, and men and women.

Leonard Shlain

#10. each other and laughed.

James Patterson

#11. Hell = where we get rid of all the lies told to us. That's where we go and cry like rain. Mom, hell is where you go to see yourself.

Ana Castillo

#12. The power of ignorance can make a powerful man look powerless

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#13. There is only one death, so let it be in the path of Allah

Sheikh Abdullah

#14. It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality is the product of an impulse to intense and overwhelming that it bursts the conventions and produces something new - again more by accident than design.

Michael Foley

#15. Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

Bob Newhart

#16. Your "Self" was created in the image and likeness of your creator. How can you believe that your "self" can be improved? Self improvement is contradictory to your creation.

Sumner Davenport

#17. Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill - but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.

Patrice O'Neal

#18. Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

Marilyn Vos Savant