Inspirational Quotes by Dero A. Saunders (American Editor)

Getting old is not for sissies.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Aging

The reason history is by turns gripping, boring and threatening is that it is a play in which the characters make up their lines as they go along.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: History

Life is so unfair that one is more likely to get into some sort of trouble than be rewarded if one attempts to do a good deed; many times one spends time and resources to help someone only to be totally ignored with not so much as a thank you.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Service

Prejudices are the principles of people we dislike.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Prejudice

The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Beliefs

Each man has, each year, his moment of madness, when he ties a rope around his neck, hands the end to his worst enemy, and says “Pull”.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Mind

Nothing is so corrupting as a great idea whose time is past.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Ideas

Why should a country worship another country’s tin gods, when it has tin gods of its own?
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Religion

The function of values is to give us the illusion of purpose in life.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Values

From its very beginnings ambition was a political word, born of the Latin ambitus, the walking around that a Roman politician did when buttering up the voters.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Ambition

Poetry is the shortest way of saying something. It lets us express a dime’s worth of ideas, or a quarter’s worth of emotion, with a nickel’s worth of words.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Poetry

There is no such thing as a good excuse.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Failure

Illusion is always based on reality, for its strength depends upon its fit with the desires, fears and experiences of countless humans.
—Dero A. Saunders

If it exists, it’s possible.
—Dero A. Saunders
Topics: Opportunities

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