Herecka Martina Preisov Quotes & Sayings

A man goes out on the beach and sees that it is covered with starfish that have washed up in the tide. A little boy is walking along, picking them up and throwing them back into the water. "What are you doing, son?" the man asks. "You see how many starfish there are? You'll never make a difference." The boy paused thoughtfully, and picked up another starfish and threw it into the ocean. "It sure made a difference to that one," he said. — Nicholas D. Kristof

It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't given this election a minute's thought, and it's just not fair for me to cancel out the vote of someone who actually gives a damn.' Indeed, it's not just sound and honest - it's the ethically responsible thing to do. — Jeff Greenfield

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art. — Jerry Saltz

There are hundreds of prisons - sexual, political, cultural. But being a prisoner also gives you impetus. — Gerald Stern

Do not let your heart be troubled, trust in God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Maybe God has a house.
But not here. — Theodore Roethke

I'd love to have the kind of friend who would visit me before visiting a man. Otherwise I know where I'm ranked, which is below him. — Donna Lynn Hope

I clink my glass against hers and we drink without toasting. The aged cognac tastes like history. Not the kind taught in schools, full of wars and politics and cultural revolution - the smaller, softer history of a world with only two people in it. — Isaac Marion

As you learn to love the company of the holy, your heart will become pure. — Frederick Lenz

She had seen Brianna's face for a moment in the light; white as paper and hard as bone, with the eyes black holes. Her gentle, kindly mistress had vanished like smoke, taken over by a deamhan, a she-devil. Lizzie was a town lass, born long after Culloden. She had never seen the wild clansmen of the glens, or a Highlander in the grip of blood fury - but she'd heard the auld stories, and now she knew them true. A person who looked like that might do anything at all. She — Diana Gabaldon

Andrew Jackson was the first one to think up the idea to promise everybody that if they will vote for you, you will give them an office when you get it, and the more times they vote for you, the bigger the office. — Will Rogers

If it's possible in the mind, then it's possible anywhere. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The silence was deafening, pressing more heavily on Hollyleaf's ears than the stones that pinned her to the cold floor. — Erin Hunter