Ellef Ringnes Quotes & Sayings

Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow. — Philip James Bailey

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man. — Henry MacKenzie

I do not accept history as determinism. I embrace history as possibility [where] we can demystify the evil in this perverse fatalism that characterizes the neoliberal discourse in the end of this century. — Paulo Freire

My mother's mother came to this country in the usual way--she got on a boat with other immigrants and sailed from Sicily. She wasn't one of them, however: neither tired nor poor or part of any huddled mass. Instead, she traveled alone, with her money in one sock and a knife in the other, coming to the new world with an old world motive--to murder the man that had left her for America. — Andrew Cotto

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think? — Philip Larkin

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault. — Sydney J. Harris

People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging
oneself. — Daisaku Ikeda

But when I'm home, I can't wait to get moving, when I'm moving I can't wait to get home again. Part of me loves when I've got no place to go. — Michael Robbins

Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming. — Byron Katie

If you're too afraid of going astray you won't go anywhere — Terry Pratchett