Modern Day Ruth Quotes & Sayings

The Statist has constructed a Rube Goldberg array of laws and policies that have institutionalized his objectives. His success breeds confidence in the limitlessness of his endeavors. — Mark Levin

But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive. — Ronald Reagan

The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them — Lang Hancock

Centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now. — David Friedrich Strauss

I have chosen education as a bridge to understanding! — Teresa R. Kemp

I only wish I knew that you'd actually want to be with me when that time is over. — Kiera Cass

O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather. — Helen Hunt

True friends: only a few have 'em, but only a few will admit that they don't. — Brian Celio

I know the established Christian theology ... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war. — Sun Myung Moon

Not by the hairsplitting distinctions of scholars but by the sure logic of faith, the childlike saint has solved the only problem in human life - establishment of unity with God. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist. — Golan Levin

Life is a walking, a journey. So, if life upon Mother Earth is a journey, there are two ways to walk. We can choose to walk forward or we can choose to walk backward. Forward Walking choices are rewarded with consequences that light the way to peace, happiness, joy, comfort, knowledge, and wisdom. Backward Walking choices bring to the Two-Legged beings consequences of misery despair, and darkness. — Anasazi Foundation

[referencing African girls with no medical care while giving birth and the devastating fistulas they are left with untreated] Instead of receiving treatment, these young girls--often just girls of fifteen or sixteen--typically find their lives effectively over. They are divorced from their husbands and, because they emit a terrible odor from their wastes, are often forced to live in a hut by themselves on the edge of the village. Eventually, they starve to death or die of an infection that progresses along the birth canal. The fistula patient is the modern-day leper," notes Ruth Kennedy, a British nurse-midwife. — Nicholas D. Kristof

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? ... Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities. — John Gay

If you happen to be a person who does not enjoy your own company, a visit to Edinburgh in January will teach you how it's done. — Vivian Swift