Lacretia Riekeberg Quotes & Sayings

The willingness to take an honest look at yourself and the ways you can improve is a great act of courage. — Derek Doepker

We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was not a Mouseketeer, but a lot of people think I was. — Shelley Fabares

Umpire's heaven is a place where he works third base every game. Home is where the heartache is. — Ron Luciano

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either. — Aesop

I will never allow anyone to divide this people once more into religious camps, each fighting the other — Adolf Hitler

Scream for me, my flower. — Nenia Campbell

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener. — Patti Smith

You never want to judge your character. — Patrick Wilson

Eroticism is, above all else, exclusively human: it is sexuality socialized and transfigured by the imagination and the will of human beings. The first thing that distinguishes eroticism from sexuality is the infinite variety of forms in which it manifests itself. eroticism is invention, constant variation, sex is always the same.
In every erotic encounter there is an invisible and ever-active participant: imagination, desire.Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness.
Many years ago I wrote: love is a sacrifice without virtue. Today I would say: love is a bet, a wild one, placed on freedom. Not my own: the freedom of the other. — Octavio Paz

I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football. — John Barnes

What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page that's really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm. — Henry Selick

You might not believe this, but there is no one like her at this school."
"Oh I believe it," I said, thinking back to the time Angeline had forgotten her locker's combination and tried to get into it with an axe.
No one was really sure where she'd gotten it from. — Richelle Mead

When a doctor makes a mistake, it's best to bury the subject. — Woody Allen