Keylie Rivera Quotes & Sayings

We live in the world when we love it. — Rabindranath Tagore

For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings, it may become a scourge, a curse, and severe punishment to a people." What made it so, what turned power into a malignent force, was not its own nature so much as the nature of man - his susceptibility to corruption and his lust for self-aggrandizement. — Bernard Bailyn

Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me? — Confucius

A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy. — Gaston Bachelard

and turned into Bartholomew Close; and now I became aware that other people were waiting about for Mr. Jaggers, as well as I. There were two men of secret appearance lounging in Bartholomew Close, and thoughtfully fitting their feet into the cracks of the pavement as they — Charles Dickens

Everyone thinks they're the only one who's ever been hurt. — Brian Katcher

When I was seventeen I found a man, or maybe he found me. Away from home for the first time, out of reach of my father's archaic restrictions and my mother's culinary insistence, I cut off my hair, dropped my Christian name, wore black and toyed with anorexia, passing incognito among the city workers, just another ant in that vast heap. — Nell Grey

So he whistles it off, and marches on — Charles Dickens

Paused in the ineluctable presence of the other, and inhaled. — Anne Enright

You can be with somebody and still feel alone. — Paul Stanley

It seems to me, though, that you always understand very well what I can't say very well. Trouble is I end up being even worse at saying things well. — Haruki Murakami

I wish that a conscious sense of peace and a feeling of human solidarity would develop in all peoples ... — Rigoberta Menchu