#said

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.' ↗

— Richard Dawson

#anyone #asked #children #color #could

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#liberal #mugged #reality #said #who

What, if as said, man is a bubble. ↗

— Marcus Terentius Varro

#man #said

I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#big #follow #go #how #i

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#certain #conspicuously #course #deter #deterrence

Who ever said that one was born just once? ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#ever #just #once #said #who

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#alone #deduction #intuition #knowledge #must

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#ago #although #been #behind #biggest

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life #lighthouse #man #quick #said

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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