Rankism Best Quotes & Sayings

When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken. — Suze Orman

But you aren't asking me to climb a tree now, are you?"

No hun, I'm asking you to fly. — Ryan Hunter

Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story. — Ben Dreyfuss

I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay ... small acts of kindness and love. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It was clear that everything considered important and good was insignificant and repulsive, and that all this glamour and luxury hid the old well-known crimes, which not only remained unpunished but were adorned with all the splendor men can devise. — Leo Tolstoy

I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation is an innumerable multitude of men, all equal and alike, incessantly endeavoring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures with which they glut their lives. Each of them, living apart, is as a stranger to the fate of all the rest; his children and his private friends constitute to him the whole of mankind. As for the rest of his fellow citizens, he is close to them, but he does not see them; he touches them, but he does not feel them; he exists only in himself and for himself alone; and if his kindred still remain to him, he may be said at any rate to have lost his country. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan. — Charlie Day

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no. — Robert Baer

Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure. — George Mason

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next. — Nora Ephron

Depression is the flaw in love. If you were married to someone and thought, "Well, if my wife dies, I'll find another one," it wouldn't be love as we know it. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss, and that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy. — Andrew Solomon

whatever is happening outside, Beta, your must not let it sink into your flesh. Do not punish your body for what it cannot control. — Samina Ali

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be. — Thomas S. Monson