Hart Ramsey Quotes & Sayings

When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms. And we feed it to livestock. So we can eat a steak? Am I the only one who sees this as a crime? Every morsel of meat we eat is slapping the tear-stained face of a starving child. When I look into her eyes, should I be silent? The Earth can produce enough for everyone's need. But not enough for everyone's greed. — Philip Wollen

If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don't know the first thing about it. — Niels Bohr

The radical intelligence in the moderate position is the only place where the center holds. Or so it seems. — Renata Adler

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. — Ernest Hemingway,

Every day you make certain decisions and take specific actions that come about as a result of how you think, feel and the habits you tend to indulge — Derric Yuh Ndim

This boy. Eyes on my face again, little smile lurking, just barely parenthesizing the corners of his lips. He lifts his eyebrows, waiting. And willing to. However long. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

But she wrote out some extra words on a piece of paper so Rain could practice reading. "Is this a magic spell?" the girl asked her.
"Don't let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if it is a moronic proclamation by the Emperor. Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing."
-Out of Oz — Gregory Maguire

Our greatest temptations generally arise from the areas closest to our hearts. — Sigmund Brouwer

This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives. — Dashiell Hammett