Jacobo Ramos Quotes & Sayings

Often, then, the stories came pouring out, and often they were set before us slowly and quietly like tea. These slow stories were told with understatement that made my eyes and voice fill as I translated; for when people seem to have no emotion remaining for such stories, your own heart must supply it. — Daoud Hari

The emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution. — Al Gore

Individuals who have learned to endure and persevere through the storms of hardships are those who can dance in the rain during a storm. — Ellen J. Barrier

But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she had done with it; and she tried to settle that most difficult problem, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working. — Elizabeth Gaskell

She glared at me. I didn't care. One word was playing a loop in my heaad: mine. — Kristen Callihan

Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained. — Eric Schneiderman

I even forgive you for sitting on my throne. You have saved Olympus! — Rick Riordan

Start local, think global & constantly raise the bar of excellence. — Onyi Anyado

If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you. — Jeff Goins

Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can never tolerate lack of status and depth of weakness in the other. — Joan D. Chittister

In the story of the blind men and the elephant, what's usually ignored is the fact that each man's description was correct. What Faye won't understand and may never understand is that there is not one true self hidden by many false ones. Rather, there is one true self hidden by many other true ones. Yes, she is the meek and shy and industrious student. Yes, she is the panicky and frightened child. Yes, she is the bold and impulsive seductress. Yes, she is the wife, the mother. And many other things as well. Her belief that only one of these is true obscures the larger truth, which was ultimately the problem with the blind men and the elephant. It wasn't that they were blind - it's that they stopped too quickly, and so never knew there was a larger truth to grasp. — Nathan Hill

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart. — Allen Klein

Have you ever been to a picnic? And someone blows up a balloon, and everyone starts tossing it around, and it's always just about to touch the ground, but someone always gets there just in time to tap it back up? That balloon, that's God, the very best in all of us, the kindness, the heavy petting, Funny Girl! ... Evil bores me. It's just one note. It doesn't sing! Oh, of course life sucks! It always will. So why not make the most of it? — Paul Rudnick

I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading. — Christopher Owens