Positive Refugee Quotes & Sayings

Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. It sort of scared me. That's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come ... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in. — Paul Simon

No," said Father. "Just do the best you can and don't let it worry you. In that way you'll have a clear conscience and a tranquil heart. — Carol Ryrie Brink

I like to live in 'fear'
becauSe, you are ready to face
any unexpected thing to become
and you have 'no regret' for it. — Sumit Lakhani

Olson's Maximus and Zukofsky's 'A' are too symbolically and verbally complex, respectively, to command large audiences especially in an age when a college degree is becoming a certificate of illiteracy. — Guy Davenport

It's not me that's obsessed with my weight, it's everyone else. I know that I'm healthy, so I don't really feel the need to answer to anyone. I've never substituted a meal for a salad in my life. — Nicole Richie

The Baron's lady weighed about three hundred and fifty pounds, and was therefore a person of great consideration.. — Voltaire

I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us! — Garth Stein

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. — C.S. Lewis

We English have no very strong attachment to the soil, we can make ourselves at home in any part of the world, but the French, I think, have an attachment to their country which is almost a physical bond. They're never really at ease when they're out of it. — W. Somerset Maugham

We learn nothing from the stereotypes around us, not
even that we're all the same. — Don DeLillo

Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus' feet and wiped his feet with her hair. JOHN 12:3 — Anne Graham Lotz

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten. — Simone Weil

I absolutely believe that another 9/11 is possible. — Glenn Greenwald

Developing an increased level of trust with other teams can enable the harder things. — David J. Anderson

But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now. — Josephine Humphreys