Participatory Rural Appraisal Quotes & Sayings

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. — Karsten Andersen

If you ever thought you were ugly, Los Angeles is the place to come and find out you were right. — Richard Jeni

The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle - it is in you. — Meindert DeJong

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently. — Elias Canetti

If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and just manner which doesn't paint a sense of injustice — Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Tru only matched his grin and walked on. Pen caught up with him, tugging on his arm. "What is it?"
"I took a walk yesterday when you were working."
"A walk."
"Yup."
"Had you shifted?"
"Yes, I had."
Pen caught his humor, although she couldn't understand its origins.
"And?"
"I may have used their freshwater reserves as a latrine. And then encouraged the other skinwalkers to do the same."
She giggled like a little girl being told a dirty joke.
"That's remarkably crude."
"I like to think of it as clever and resourceful."
"That, too. — Ellen Connor

Balance is overrated. — Thomas Leonard

To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastrophe of nature. To them, too, however, the other thought has come that man is perhaps not merely a half-rational animal but a child of the gods and destined to immortality. — Hermann Hesse

There is no normal life. There is only life. — Anne Rice

Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person. — Joan Armatrading

I never thought I'd find peace until I give peace a place in my life! — LaFreddie B

There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders. — Stephen Harper

In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter of looking at the drawings, paintings, musical compositions, and poems that have been and are being created; it is a matter of being drawn into the individual work of art, of realizing that it has been made by a real human being, and trying to discover the secret of its creation. — Ruth Whitman