Comprisal Quotes & Sayings

If you look at a farmer and his daily expenditure on existing energy services, it is much higher on an incremental delta basis. And then there is an emotional cost of not providing their kids with the right to educate. If you calculate these costs in economic terms and create a financing mechanism for them to buy it, the emotional delta cost is much higher compared to their household. — Ramon Magsaysay

Innocence isn't a set of house keys. You don't just up and lose it one day. It's a process. — Jael McHenry

There are few people who know how to listen and I have not met anybody who can do so like you. — Hermann Hesse

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness. — Isaac Barrow

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don't go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues as dating, clothing styles, modern music, and use of family cars, listen to them anyway. They have the experience that you lack. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

When he spoke, a new spurt of blood drenched the coarse cloth across his chest and sleeve. — Lois Lowry

What good is the legal process if people can decide their motives are bigger than the law? — Jodi Picoult

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech. — Boyle Roche

I've matured a lot as a pitcher. I understand what my strengths are. I've learned that I've got a great sinker, I get a lot of ground balls, and it's easy to get a ground-ball double play. — Tim Hudson

Inanimate objects have a life of their own, especially when they are the daily companions of a living soul. Without that life, they take on a bleak, desolate appearance, like furniture piled up in a warehouse. — Jennifer Worth