Calero Reservoir Quotes & Sayings

I don't really plan. I just see what happens. — Ruth Wilson

To fight aloud is very brave, But gallanter, I know, Who charge within the bosom, The cavalry of woe. — Emily Dickinson

By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules of what is permitted and what is forbidden, we Muslims supressed the freedom to think for ourselves and to act as we chose. We froze the moral outlook of billions of people into the mind-set of the Arab desert in the seventh century. We were not just servants of Allah, we were slaves. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

ANYWHERE COULD BE SOMEWHERE I might have come from the high country, or maybe the low country, I don't recall which. I might have come from the city, but what city in what country is beyond me. I might have come from the outskirts of a city from which others have come or maybe a city from which only I have come. Who's to know? Who's to decide if it rained or the sun was out? Who's to remember? They say things are happening at the border, but nobody knows which border. They talk of a hotel there, where it doesn't matter if you forgot your suitcase, another will be waiting, big enough, and just for you. — Mark Strand

That was what was cruel about superficial change: it exposed what could never change. — Howard Jacobson

If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together. — Liz Murray

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. — Czeslaw Milosz

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure. — Douglas Wilson

Now do you understand,' he said, 'you were with me all along? — Laura Barnett

True greatness, true leadership, is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. — J. Oswald Sanders