Mentawai People Quotes & Sayings

Words are whips in the wind traveling between lovers. — Faith Tilley Johnson

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives? — David Suzuki

Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go. — Henry Kirke White

We Draytons are many things: pirates, witches, rogues ... but nobody ever accused us of being ungrateful. A family has to have standards. Even in the Edge. — Ilona Andrews

The generosity of the American people is legendary. So is their spirit. — Marsha Blackburn

The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes. — Leo Tolstoy

The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited. Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only men.
Polonius — William Shakespeare

The law of common sense. — Sophie Swetchine

For white people, nothing makes them appreciate the gift of life more than voluntarily trying to end it. — Christian Lander

We all have wounds & we can either open them up to the light of day so they can heal or we can keep them buried where they will fester & one day wreak havoc on us. (page 244) — Edie Wadsworth

At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something. — Rob Machado