Decidua Vera Quotes & Sayings

I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity. — Yusef Komunyakaa

At some point the Indian Act system will go. But that will be the result of a broad conversation involving Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals over how to settle the outstanding treaty, land and other issues. This won't necessarily require a protracted debate. What it will require is that Canadians engage in the conversation instead of sitting back as if it doesn't concern them. We have to be involved because what is needed is a serious transfer of responsibility and money, the exact opposite of dragging out treaty negotiations one by one. We need to do more than empower our governments to act. We need to push them. We need to make this a make-or-break issue. We need to elect or defeat them with these indigenous issues in mind. — John Ralston Saul

I found with my students they don't necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what's relevant to what's he doing you see. — Ahmed H. Zewail

We have mortgaged the planet and spent the cash on trifles. — Justin Cronin

I wanted to stare it down and give the reaper the middle finger when I went. — Donna Augustine

Humor is man's greatest blessing. — Mark Twain

All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back. — Gloria Steinem

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment. — Richard Whately

When I go back to theater, I feel good about myself. When I do films or TV, it's to make a little bread to pay my mortgage or whatever, and when I've made the money, I do theater again. And when I get a part I like, a part I can work on, that satisfies me. I feed good about myself. — David Hedison

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for. — Bill Johnson

They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience. — Wislawa Szymborska

No matter where you are now, whatever you can conceive and believe, you can achieve. — Napoleon Hill

I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new. — Robert W. Service