Amy Rubin Flett Quotes & Sayings

We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire. — Marge Piercy

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more. — Horace Mann

We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause? — Winston Churchill

A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also as a light to other nations. As speech has been created by a few great men, the most extraordinary wisdom lies concealed in it, a wisdom which reveals itself to a few ardent explorers but which is usually overlooked by the stupid professional philologists. — Otto Weininger

People tend to be overconfident in their abilities, and the most overconfident also tend to be the least competent — Steven Gacovino

Jesus and with God. We all know the need of time for our meals each — Andrew Murray

Sooner or later we're all someone's dog. — Terry Pratchett

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have. — Joseph Fiennes

With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"
To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,
And then to come out empty
it is a tragic error. (116)
trans by Robert Thurman — Huston Smith

She looked all around. It was so strange to feel trapped in the middle of so much open space. But that was exactly how she felt. — Chris Kurtz

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments. — Aristotle.

Those who master and apply the secret will reach high stations, accumulate riches, and bargain with life on their own terms, even if their schooling has been meagre. — Napoleon Hill

You decide for yourself when it will hurt. — Per Petterson

The gospel is not good advice to men, but good news about Christ; not an invitation to us to do anything, but a declaration of what God has done; not a demand, but an offer. — John R.W. Stott

A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles. — Mark Zupan