Nevie Swivel Quotes & Sayings

She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent. — Anthony Marra

No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interest of the few. And the enlightenment must proceed in ways which force the administrative specialists to take account of the needs. The world has suffered more from leaders and authorities than from the masses. The essential need ... is the improvement of the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion. That is the problem of the public. — John Dewey

Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit ... unnatural? — Bill Hicks

A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles. — Nicky Whelan

I think - I really think my voice has gotten better in the last two or three years. I don't know why. I've been doing a lot of - a lot more lead singing, and everybody tells me that my voice was better than ever and I agree with them. Maybe I've learned to do more with it. I don't know what. — Ralph Stanley

The words of my book are nothing, the drift of it everything. — Walt Whitman

If you'd been born and raised in Palestine, you'd know that some people are born to suffer. And it never stops, for them. Not for a second. You'd know where real suffering comes from. It's the same place where love and freedom and pride are born. And it's the same place where those feelings and ideals die. That suffering never stops. We only pretend it does. We only tell ourselves it does, to make the kids stop whimpering in their sleep. — Gregory David Roberts

And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to the world. If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness. — Mary Oliver

People don't like to wait for words, they want the words to wait for them. — Therese May

Hanukkah is ... the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights — Adam Sandler

Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have, — Josh McDowell

A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing. — Catherine Anderson

I don't hate you. I love you and adore you because you are so innocent you don't know what you are doing. — Debasish Mridha

When my grandchildren ask me what I did in the '42 movement [Quit India Movement] I say - "I waited for it. — R.P. Noronha

Take The Walk is not about individuals becoming great in order to impact the world, it is about discovering the greatness of individuals as they use what they already have to touch the lives of the dying, sick and poor. It is about normal people with careers, families, and responsibilities, asking 'How can what I already do and what I already am make a difference in lives half a world away? — Hanson