Rechtbank Quotes & Sayings

We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine. — Fady Joudah

The true hunter knows what they want out of life and then they go and take it! — David Farbman

Life is extraordinarily resilient. It's been around for over a billion years. — Geoffrey West

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man. — Doris Lessing

The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it. — Peter T. King

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure. — Theodore Roosevelt

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble. — Aristotle.

There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I'm better off not stressing about my body all the time. — Hilary Duff

Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor. — Suzanne Collins

Fear is an enemy to fight and defeat and not an enemy to fear. Fear of falling, fear of the unknown, fear of making mistakes, fear of trying new ideas, fear of failure or fear of those already there."
~ Ikechukwu Joseph — Ikechukwu Joseph

The psychic being and the mental being, Manomaya Purusha, are not the same. The psychic being is behind the mind, it is what the Westerners call the soul. It takes interest in the movements of the mind and the vital only when there is a harmony between these movements and the truth above. The knowledge of the psychic being is deeper. — Sri Aurobindo

Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. — Albert Camus