Handrails For Concrete Quotes & Sayings

A good thought is a spark,
a good desire is a flame,
and a good deed is a bonfire. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A map was a fine thing to study when you were disposed to think of something else, being made up of names that would turn into a chime if you went back upon them. — George Eliot

the whisper of space being compressed. — Anthony Doerr

Women lose their delicacy and refinement, when they are compelled night and day to haggle with their destiny over things pitifully small, and for this they are blamed by those whom their toil supports. — Rabindranath Tagore

Help, Lord, will suit us living and dying, suffering or labouring, rejoicing or sorrowing. In Him our help is found, let us not be slack to cry to Him. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Happy are those who own nothing. — Roberto Bolano

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community. — Jon Porter

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process. — E.B. White

Exactly who bears responsibility for the spate of extrajudicial killings is unclear. Senior police officials privately accuse the military's intelligence services of committing the worst abuses, and complain that their men bear the brunt of Taliban reprisals. One retired officer, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, offered a still-murkier explanation: that in some cases, intelligence operatives tortured suspected militants, then handed them to allied police officers for execution. Whatever the truth, — Anonymous

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't. — Plato

A call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality. — Veronica Roth