Herbert Hoover Rugged Individualism Quotes & Sayings

Brains are the only things that stand between a living person and a gruesome death. Or maybe brains and Kevlar. — Mira Grant

It is past eight. The hills before me are bathed in a gentle light that falls like sleep on weary eyes. Everything is soft and undefined. This is the hour Kham is most appealing to my sentimental self. There is no aggression in the air, just a drowsy stillness. This is the time of the day when people are immersed in the mundane actions of preparing for the night: gathering the yaks, feeding the dogs, rounding their cattle so the goats and the dris face each other and are in the right position to be milked in the morning. A time when the decisions made are whether people should take their clothes off or lie in them. A time when night is already evident in the way people light candles. — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

You can only be your brother's keeper if he allows you — Ikechukwu Izuakor

Thank you for riding the European Federation Maglev Train, — Marissa Meyer

It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience. — Chris Hemsworth

While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It has been used by American leaders for over a half-century in eulogy of those God-fearing men and women of honesty whose stamina and character and fearless assertion of rights led them to make their own way in life. — Herbert Hoover

The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the Beloved has to face countless difficulties. But he brakes them all for the sake of the Beloved. — Dada Vaswani

Life is glorious, but it can be counted on to be cruel. — Noah Gordon

I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature — Larry Wall

it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright — Benjamin Franklin