Lequeint Webb Quotes & Sayings

Good God - don't they teach you anything in those poor excuses for schools anymore?" Then he calms down, but only a little. "No, I suppose they wouldn't. History is written by the victors - and when there are no victors, it all winds up in corporate shredders." He looks out the window with the sad resignation of a man who knows he's too old to change the world. — Neal Shusterman

.....every form puts a limit on mystery — Jalaluddin Rumi

Anybody who imagines that revealed religion requires a craven clinging to a fixed, unalterable, and self-evident truth should read the rabbis. Midrash required them to "investigate" and "go in search" of fresh insight. The rabbis used the old scriptures not to retreat into the past but to propel them into the uncertainties of the post-temple world. — Karen Armstrong

Is it not beautiful to discover a new path to your destiny and decorate it with the beauty of your imagination? — Debasish Mridha

Individuals capture attention and engross history, but the most revolutionary changes in Roman politics were the work of families or of a few men. — Ronald Syme

Our common future is badly served when the eloquence of our attack on the other fellow exceeds the energy with which we cooperate with them. — Clarence Francis

My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting. — Demi Lovato

Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had held her when adventure was a possible thing for her. Particularly she remembered one who had for a time been her lover and who in the moment of his passion had cried out to her more than a hundred times, saying the same words madly over and over: "You dear! You dear! You lovely dear!" The words, she thought, expressed something she would have liked to have achieved in life. — Sherwood Anderson

The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me. — Bashar Al-Assad

I was happy to be a scrub. I was proud to be a scrub. When I got older and I started talking to girls, part of my game when I was talking to them was to tell them how poor I was. I actually enjoyed that. — Joseph Bruce

We cannot see Beauty till we let go our hold of it. It was Buddha who conquered the world, not Alexander - this is untrue when stated in dry prose - oh when shall we be able to sing it? When shall all these most intimate truths of the universe overflow the pages of printed books and leap out in a sacred stream like the Ganges from the Gangotrie? — Rabindranath Tagore

We are all accountable for our actions; their affect and influence on our lives and the lives of others.
Understanding the true meaning of accountability makes us strong and enables us to learn — Sameh Elsayed

And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me. — Ian McDiarmid

I have a significant other and a large, immediate family. No children, thank goodness. And I have a 13-year-old kitty. — Andrea Parker

Kenneth Koch once said, You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been! — Fred Rogers