International Rescue Committee Quotes & Sayings

Only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside. — Russell Kirk

Open to them your hand to the shore, watch them walk into the sea.
Press upon them all they need, see them yearn for all they want.
Gift to them the calm pool of words, watch them draw the sword.
Bless upon them the satiation of peace, see them starve for war.
Grant them darkness and they will lust for light.
Deliver to them death and hear them beg for life.
Beget life and they will murder your kin.
Be as they are and they will see you different.
Show wisdom and you are a fool.
The shore gives way to the sea.
And the sea, my friends,
Does not dream of you. — Steven Erikson

Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat. — Emile Zola

I'm always down to share my secrets, share my beauty tips. Most of the stuff my fans never knew I get from CVS and stores like that. It's fun sharing all the stuff that I use! I don't use crazy stuff. There's always ways to do it for less. — Kylie Jenner

Each step may seem to take forever, but no matter how uninspired you feel, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and consistently. This is how we can use our greatest enemy, habit, against itself. — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

kind of person who could achieve anything if only he wasn't dysfunctional enough not to. — Robert DeMott

Do you like scary stories? he asked ominously.
Jacob Black — Stephenie Meyer

Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn't penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart. — J.E.B. Spredemann

That's the great thing about plankton. It pretty much keeps to itself. — Gene Hackman

Their homeopathic letters,
Envelopes full of carefully broken glass
To lodge behind your eyes so you would see — Ted Hughes

Sally did the mature thing and stuck her tongue out at her best friend. — Quinn Loftis

I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet. — Henry David Thoreau