Leper Colony Quotes & Sayings

If you can expect the unexpected, you can emotionally lick anyone. — Benji Durden

But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school. — Jared Polis

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony. — Blake Edwards

Love can make you do things that you never thought possible. — Phil Collins

At the end of the day, it isn't where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I'm going and never have been before. — Warsan Shire

From the moment I bought my ticket, I had a premonition I wasn't returning to New York anytime soon.
You Know, this happens a lot to Russians. The Soviet Union is gone, and the borders are as free and passable as they've ever been. And yet, when a Russian moves between the two universes, this feeling of finality persists, the logical impossibility of a place like Russia existing alongside the civilized world, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, sharing the same atmosphere with, say, Vladivostok. It was like those mathematical concepts I could never understand in high school: if, then. If Russia exists, then the West is a mirage; conversely, if Russia does not exist, then and only then is the West real and tangible. No wonder young people talk about "going beyond the cordon" when they talk of emigrating, as if Russia were ringed by a vast cordon sanitaire. Either you stay in the leper colony or you get out into the wider world and maybe try to spread your disease to others. — Gary Shteyngart

We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables. — Terence McKenna

If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song, the world doesn't need that. But on the other hand, if you give your life to good works - you go and work in a leper colony and it doesn't make you happy - the chances are you're not doing it very well. — Frederick Buechner

As Emile Leger said when he left his mansion in Montreal to go live in a leper colony in Africa, The time for talking is over. — Brennan Manning

He imagined she had turned her phone off, and he couldn't blame her for silencing the world at such a time - her — Imbolo Mbue

I run my hands down her bare arms. Shoulders to elbows to wrists. She has goose bumps, even in the muggy Florida night. Maybe that's because of me.
Sometimes I forget she likes me the same way I like her. — Pam Bachorz

Later the island was turned into a leper colony, a lunatic asylum, and a naval base. The government had only recently turned the island back into a prison. — Nelson Mandela

I wanted to be a district attorney and solve hidden problems or maybe even be a leper-colony missionary and save people. — Diane Ladd

If philosophy is mountain climbing
then literature is an anti-gravity parade
I love thee like a leper colony
loves to make a trade — Carl-John X. Veraja

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift

Santa was dead, to begin with. There was no doubt whatsoever about that. The after-action report was signed by the field commander, the director of operations, the secretary of the Office of Sidhe Affairs, and the chief battle-mage. Janus had signed it - and Janus's word could be counted upon for anything he chose to put his name to. Old Saint Nicholas, the Sidhe Lord of the Yuletide, was as dead as a door-nail.
It didn't stick. — Chris Lester

In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world. — Allan Sherman

Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it. — Laozi

You're like a freight train, and I don't want to get railroaded because the girl you fell in love with will be crushed. — E.L. James

SMILE - IT NO BROKE YOUR FACE!
-on a stone in Kalaupapa — Alan Brennert