Khaila Rettinger Quotes & Sayings

To spoil means to put no limit on caprice, to give one the impression that everything is permitted to him and that he has no obligations. The young child exposed to this regime has no experience of its own limits. By reason of the removal of all external restraint, all clashing with other things, he comes actually to believe that he is the only one that exists, and gets used to not considering others, especially not considering them as superior to himself. This feeling of another's superiority could only be instilled into him by someone who, being stronger than he is, should force him to give up some desire, to restrict himself, to restrain himself. He would then have learned this fundamental discipline: "Here I end and here begins another more powerful than I am. In the world, apparently, there are two people: I myself and another superior to me. — Ortega Y Gasset

I wanted to live spontaneously and to find myself in wild places, with wild people, and have wild times. — Sophia Amoruso

Never is a long word. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing. — Kevin Kelly

Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us. — Marcel Proust

As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin. — Jerry Bridges

All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action. — J.I. Packer

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others. — Barry Manilow

A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy. — Robert Jordan

using Spring inside a plain old web container as an alternative stack is a perfectly viable alternative to Java EE 6. — Adam Bien

Sheltering in Tube stations, the piles of rubble — George Orwell

Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect. — Stephen Covey

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once. — Ann Brashares

Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them. — Michel Faber