Dryad Soraka Quotes & Sayings

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise. — Jonathan Shapiro

He caught Kin's eye and grinned again. Joel often grinned. Palaeolithic genes had somehow met again at his conception, and a slab face like Joel's had to smile frequently lest it frighten small children. When his face brightened it was like the dawn of Man. They spoke, and not merely with words. Between them they were 400 years old. Now words were mere flatcars on which towered cargoes of nuance and expression. — Terry Pratchett

I could make a difference. — Chris Burke

The hardest choices are made not once, but every turn. — Robert G. Vane

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object. — Hosea Ballou

As countries appear and disappear, then I began to ask, what makes countries successful? And it turns out, after a long slog through geographies and ethnicities and all kinds of variables, it's the ability to adapt and adopt, what Darwin talked about. — Juan Enriquez

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions. — Mahmoud Darwish

Sin can't enslave a person who is utterly confident and sure and hope-filled in the infinite happiness of life with Christ in the future. — John Piper

When you're a housekeeper's daughter, you see the world through a half-open door. — Laraine Day