Michael Rua Quotes & Sayings

We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate people because they were born in another country, because they speak a different language, or because they take a different view on this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human ... Let us have but one end in view: the welfare of humanity. — John Amos Comenius

Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success. — Franklin P. Adams

As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child. — Anthony Browne

Almost any book was better than life, Audrey thought. Or rather, life as she was living it. Of course, life would soon change, open out, become quite different. You couldn't go on if you didn't hope that, could you? But for the time being there was no doubt that it was pleasant to get away from it. And books could take her away. — Jean Rhys

WHAT COMES FROM THE HEART TOUCHES THE HEART. — Lester Swan

Now, scientists could reconstitute many more species by replacing the DNA of closely related creatures with DNA from extinct species. — Anonymous

The self, entirely encompassed by civilization, is dissolved in an element composed of the very inhumanity which civilization has sought from the first to escape. — Max Horkheimer

Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil — Eminem

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix ... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved. — Tommy Douglas

The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club. — Mark Billingham

I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit. — Sarah Vaughan

It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything
even the way I walk. That must be why it's so strange that I could easily belong in three of them. — Veronica Roth

...it is necessary to act within but to think beyond our received humanist tradition and, all the while, to imagine a much more complicated set of stories about the emergence of the now, in which what is foreclosed as unknowable is forever saturating the "what-can-be-known." We are left with the project of visualizing, mourning, and thinking "other humanities" within this received genealogy of "the human. — Lisa Lowe