Language Revitalisation Quotes & Sayings

Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely. — Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

I'll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine. — Sharon Kay Penman

You don't really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look at it as a thing and you say well this thing has to be built a little longer, the bicep has to be longer; or the tricep has to be thicker here in the elbow area. And you look at it and it doesn't even seem to belong to you. Like a sculpture. Then after looking at it a sculptor goes in with his thing and works a little bit, and you do maybe then some extra forced reps to get this lower part out. You form it. Just like a sculpture. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters. — Susan B. Anthony

It's not fair that our dogs don't have longer lives. When I get to heaven, I intend to scold God for that. — Debra Holland

Providing great customer service is the most natural activity in the world. It's fun to help others because it feels good. — Kevin Stirtz

Transparency is the new objectivity — David Weinberger

I have my moments, I just can't remember where I put them. — Neil Leckman

I feel the madness creeping slowly. Loved by many I'm still lonely. — Ronnie Radke

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity. — George Bernard Shaw

and they treated each other with the familiarity of a husband and wife who had hidden so many things in this life that there was almost nothing left for them to say to each other. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in areas where the government has proven itself either unwilling or unable to defend the lives and the property of Negroes, it's time for Negroes to defend themselves. Article number two of the constitutional amendments provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun. It is constitutionally legal to own a shotgun or a rifle. — Malcolm X

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects. — Majora Carter