Leatherworking Guide Quotes & Sayings

The problem with a job is that relying on others to give you a living is the biggest risk of all. — Robert Kiyosaki

They didn't need as many external rules as we did because they had internalised the standards of decency. — Anna Funder

Women helped each other in ways small and large every day, without thinking, and that was what kept them going even when the world came up with new and exciting ways to crush them. — Alyssa Cole

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other long enough to see that a body is a thing of beauty, is a miracle of rivers and oceans and islands and continents contained within itself? That the brain is divided into two hemispheres, each symmetrical, each perfect, each with its own system of waterways. These people of war should be shown an x-ray of an intraparenchymal hemorrhage, of a hemorrhage in an eighteen-year-old girl's brain, a girl named Ivy. Take a look at that, people of war. See, you should not hurt each other, and this is why. Without you ever even trying, this is what can happen to your body, your beautiful body, and your brain, your beautiful symmetrical brain, and your heart, and your soul. — Alison McGhee

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it. — Megan McKenna

Everything he did, as long as you stayed in the village, whether shouting obscenities at passing children or sleeping in the cemetery, all would be remembered when they looked at you, they would say to themselves or to whomever they were with, It's his father, you know, the crazy one, the drunk, and they couldn't help but wonder what part of his madness had passed on to you, which part you had escaped. — Nick Flynn

We need an energy bill that encourages consumption. — George W. Bush

But that's the thing about Outs. They are so far on the periphery that people underestimate them. And people don't realize that they've underestimated them until it's too late. — Roseanne Cheng

Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have. — Emile M. Cioran

I hear that Brooke Ashley is also pressing charges. I don't know how she can prove anything. How can they prove anything, whether it's true or not, that I'm the one that infected her? — Marc Wallice