Dire Straits Famous Quotes & Sayings

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em. — Jim Valvano

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. — Orson Scott Card

Right here in our bodies, in our defense of our right to experience joy, in the refusal to abandon the place where we have been most completely invaded & colonized, in our determination to make the bombed & defoliated lands flower again and bear fruit, here where we have been most shamed is one of the most radical & sacred places from which to transform the world. — Aurora Levins Morales

Knowledge exists, and good will exists; but both remain impotent until they possess the proper organs for making themselves heard. — Bertrand Russell

There's just something about you, Bess. You're sweeter than the aroma of the blueberry muffin I devoured with you, prettier than the sun setting over the ocean back home, and tangier than the lemons you squeeze into your water. — Rachel Blaufeld

We doubt ourselves. It's not about lowering the self-esteem. It's about increasing the self-confidence by letting the risk factor do its part — Bhavik Sarkhedi

I honestly believe in a force that's larger than our own. — Grace Gealey

I want to see that our older people still feel useful, and our younger people feel engaged in our wider society, and I want to feel that we can bond people from disparate backgrounds, ages and communities together in a greater project, which they get engaged in for the sake of others. Volunteering, in all sorts of ways, seems to me likely to be able to achieve some of that — Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person. — Terry Pratchett

I, however, am a different story. I have not taught in years. I will not. Probably not ever again. — Jandy Nelson

Worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive. — Ruth Graham