Modestamente Quotes & Sayings

But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don't show him that he counts for something? — Chris Cleave

It made me realize how unimaginative I had always been about battered wives. Disaster creeps up, a tidal wave on the tourist beach. By the time you can see it, you are powerless or unable to resist it and it rolls you up and away. — Nicci French

The moor has always been part of my life. It's like a muse: the colours of the heather and the sky; how you can see the savagery of the wind in the way the dwarf pine trees are bent double, the bleak lines of the landscape in winter when everything save the moss and the grass are dead, stones like bones, poking through a thin skin of bilberry bushes, rushes reflected in black bog water. — Sanjida Kay

When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others. — Richard Bach

We choose to vibrantly go about life, soak it up, embrace it, and celebrate it, or we choose not to. No one else can make this decision for us. — John O'Leary

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong. — Fulton J. Sheen

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. — St. Jerome

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here. — Paul Mooney

Repression isn't the answer. I know that. It's one of the things that punish the body for what's closed up in the mind. It's always so much easier to analyze someone else, always much harder to see things when it's yourself. — Nora Roberts

When your desire is to bring peace and harmony to the world, then you will have to start by finding peace and harmony within your own heart. It is a waste of time talking about peace. You have to seek and find that consciousness of peace which nothing and no one can disturb, and remain in it. — Eileen Caddy

Invent new drugs, that's what you should be doing ... fight to get new weirder ones ... and weirder establishments to do them in. — Doug Stanhope

Only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all. — John Boyne

It was as if she was becoming the light. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

I've been waiting a long time for last year. But I guess it's just not coming again. — Philip K. Dick

I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move - and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over. Then in the very ' bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard. And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern - it strangles so: ... — Charlotte Perkins Gilman