Devna Quotes & Sayings

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. — Marian Wright Edelman

Roberto led Jack and Annie across a — Mary Pope Osborne

The events I've chosen to record are only the most spectacular manifestations of forces that - out of fear, ignorance, everyday stupidity - are deemed 'obscure'. But it's now an indisputable fact that the most innocent words, the most harmless gestures in certain places and at certain times acquire an unwonted importance and weight, and have repercussions that far exceed what was intended. — Jacques Yonnet

A wound gives strange dignity to him who bears it. Well men shy from his new and terrible majesty. It is as if the wounded man's hand is upon the curtain which hangs before the revelations of all existence - the meaning of ants, potentates, wars, cities, sunshine, snow, a feather dropped from a bird's wing; and the power of it sheds radiance upon a bloody form, and makes the other men understand sometimes that they are little. His comrades look at him with large eyes thoughtfully. Moreover, they fear vaguely that the weight of a finger upon him might send him headlong, precipitate the tragedy, hurl him at once into the dim, gray unknown.
("An Episode Of War") — Stephen Crane

Are you ready to be poured out as an offering? It is an act of your will, not your emotions. — Oswald Chambers

I'm so small that my husband won't be able to find me in the bed. And when he does, he'll discover that my breasts are uneven and I'm shaped like an eggplant. — Kristin Cashore

Life is but a memory Happened long ago. Theatre full of sadness For a long forgotten show. — Nick Drake

Never waste a prayer on something that isn't important. — Oscar Goodman

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. — Jimmy Carter

If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself. — Baba Kalyani