Raye Penber Quotes & Sayings

There are so many different forms of silence: the silence that tyrannical states force on their citizens, stealing their memories, rewriting their histories, and imposing on them a state-sanctioned identity. Or the silence of witnesses who choose to ignore or not speak the truth, and of victims who at times become complicit in the crimes committed against them. Then there are the silences we indulge in about ourselves, our personal mythologies, the stories we impose upon our real lives. — Azar Nafisi

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office. — Barack Obama

I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power. — Sharon Salzberg

I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool. — George R R Martin

There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it! — Albert Einstein

We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two.
I think maybe we learn a few things each time that we don't forget. A few things that stick with us. It's just hard to pass those things on to those who come after us because if they didn't live through it, they don't view it the same way we do. If you don't experience something firsthand, it's a lot harder to accept. Terry Brooks, Bearers of the Black Staff, p 89 — Terry Brooks

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. — Woody Allen

Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy. — Sheila Kaye-Smith

If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain. — Oprah Winfrey

Gratitude is a sign of maturity ... Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others. — Gordon B. Hinckley

when people come up with new ideas, they have to have confidence in themselve to say " i can do it — Ellen Sabin

I spent a lot of last night being moody and grim.
I'm a vampire. We're allowed to do that. It's in all the brochures. — Garon Whited

We don't want to put a band-aid on our problems that we keep talking about in society; we want to get down to the nitty gritty and do some surgery. — Allan Houston

Then he recalled whose daughter she was, and wondered why he wondered.
Then he recalled who it was who had a child.
A child, Noirot had a child! — Loretta Chase

There are 2 to 3 million women programmers in the world. We need to see them more. — Megan Smith