Huckleberry Finn Character Development Quotes & Sayings

I've decided to aim a telescope at my neighbour's window. It's the closest I'll ever come to living with someone comfortably. — Dov Davidoff

The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the company to get them from India, where the labor is free. We are all connected. And we all have human value. That's what my work is about. — Lisa Kristine

Like a versatile baller, George Dohrmann swings seamlessly from position to position: investigative journalist, social critic, gifted storyteller. The result is a gem of a book that addresses THE question central to contemporary basketball: how does such an unseemly culture spring from such an essentially beautiful game? You'll come away rooting harder than ever for the kids and harder than ever against the basketball profiteers. — L. Jon Wertheim

If a house is burning, and bucket of water is thrown on the blaze and doesn't extinguish the fire, this doesn't mean that water won't put out fire. It means we need more water. And so with nonviolence. — Dorothy Cotton

As far as I can recall, none of the adults in my life ever once remembered to say, Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams. However, you're not going to feel that a lot in seventh grade. Just hang on. — Anne Lamott

If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth ... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that. — Daniel A. D'Aniello

The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through
our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what
Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict
on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life ... — Virginia Woolf

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease. — Sargent Shriver

Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality. — Steve Maraboli

It was time to take what he wanted. And what he wanted was her. — Lisa Carlisle

The problem with chasing after happiness was that it wasn't a destination you could reach. It was something that happened along the way. — Lisa Kleypas