Braving A New World Quotes & Sayings

The gift of today is a sacred-blessing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good. — Jim Hightower

I could lie and pretend that I hunt and camp, but that wouldn't be me. Clothes? Shopping? That's stuff I like! — Ryan Seacrest

How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed! — Margaret Mitchell

I give you a small serenity. — Robin McKinley

There is a horse here-the furthest north of any horse, and he eats fish and travels on snowshoes. — Will Rogers

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument. — Joseph Joubert

Faith is caught rather than taught. — Henrietta Mears

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are. — Henry Ward Beecher

Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant possibility that refuses to be extinguished. — Nathaniel Branden

I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten the people and educate the people and let they be the ones who put the pressure on their elected officials. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Yes, we even doubted his resolve to exterminate us. Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? So many millions of people! By what means? In the middle of the twentieth century! — Elie Wiesel

Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine. — Abraham Verghese