Poquita Sal Quotes & Sayings

You can change the world at this moment for better by changing your thoughts and by spreading your love for the world and humanity as a whole. — Debasish Mridha

In the long run, success or failure will be
conditioned upon the way in which the average man, the average women, does his or her duty, first in the ordinary, every-day affairs of life, and next in those great occasional cries which call for heroic virtues. The average citizen must be a good citizen if our republics are to succeed. The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. — Theodore Roosevelt

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. — Stella Adler

Our immigrant plant teachers offer a lot of different models for how not to make themselves welcome on a new continent. Garlic mustard poisons the soil so that native species will die. Tamarisk uses up all the water. Foreign invaders like loosestrife, kudzu, and cheat grass have the colonizing habit of taking over others' homes and growing without regard to limits. But Plantain is not like that. Its strategy was to be useful, to fit into small places, to coexist with others around the dooryard, to heal wounds. Plantain is so prevalent, so well integrated, that we think of it as native. It has earned the name bestowed by botanists for plants that have become our own. Plantain is not indigenous but "naturalized." This is the same term we use for the foreign-born when they become citizens in our country. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Before you ever clasped your hands to pray God was already within your heart to stay. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

My mother used to say that a man who can't appreciate poetry lacks a soul. — Renee Ahdieh

I only know how to read because I steal books from rich people. — Natalie C. Anderson

New Rule: Instead of using their $10 billion atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider to re-create the Big Bang by melting atom parts in temperatures a million times hotter than the sun, scientists should not do that. I'm just sayin' it sounds dangerous. I'm as interested as the next guy in determining the origin of matter, but first couldn't we solve some simple mystery, like why some-detector batteries always die at four a.m.? — Bill Maher

You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment. — Rumi

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. — Samuel Johnson

Don't just yell France! There are a lot of other countries. — Holly Black

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. — G.K. Chesterton

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness. — Isobelle Carmody