Nmrc Quotes & Sayings

I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors — William Shakespeare

I want to leave a mark. — John Green

If we remain fearful, then we will be further stripped of power as we barrel towards this neofeudalistic state where there is a world of masters and serfs, a kind of permanent underclass. That's what's happening; that's what's being created. Rapacious corporate business interests have shattered all kinds of regulations and controls. They have carried out a coup d'etat in slow motion. And it's over; they've won. — Chris Hedges

So I feared not just the violence of this world but the rules designed to protect you from it, the rules that would have you contort your body to address the block, and contort again to be taken seriously by colleagues, and contort again so as not to give the police a reason. All my life I'd heard people tell their black boys and black girls to "be twice as good," which is to say "accept half as much." These words would be spoken with a veneer of religious nobility, as though they evidenced some unspoken quality, some undetected courage, when in fact all they evidenced was the gun to our head and the hand in our pocket. This is how we lose our softness. This is how they steal our right to smile. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make. — Margaret Fell

Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals. — Maggie Lawson

In the quest of life, we quit living. — Pratik Shah

I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life. — Leon Spinks

Therefore, no matter how the world makes out in the next few centuries, a large class of readers at least will not be too surprised at anything. They will have been through it all before in fictional form, and will not be too paralyzed with astonishment to try to cope with contingencies as they arise. — L. Sprague De Camp

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely. — Phyllis Rose

Instinctively and empirically we know that stories have the power and the potential to capture hearts and imaginations - we're just not sure how or why this is so. — Sarah Arthur

When I believe in Jesus, I am united to Christ. Therefore, what he did and achieved becomes mine by this union through faith alone. His righteous life is imputed to me. What Christ achieved is counted as mine. — John Piper

They say you're big before you're small I'm sure glad I don't know it all. — Sara Quin