Reibers Quotes & Sayings

Curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally. Mother rarely insisted I do anything. Father — Gail Carson Levine

LIFE IN ALEXANDRA was exhilarating and precarious. Its atmosphere was alive, its spirit adventurous, its people resourceful. Although the township did boast some handsome buildings, it could fairly be described as a slum, living testimony to the neglect of the authorities. The roads were unpaved and dirty, and filled with hungry, undernourished children scampering around half-naked. The air was thick with the smoke from coal fires in tin braziers and stoves. A single water tap served several houses. Pools of stinking, stagnant water full of maggots collected by the side of the road. Alexandra was known as "Dark City" for its complete absence of electricity. Walking home at night was perilous, for there were no lights, the silence pierced by yells, laughter, and occasional gunfire. So different from the darkness of the Transkei, which seemed to envelop one in a welcome embrace. — Nelson Mandela

Do not lie to yourself: not every penny you invest in marketing and promotion is an actual investment. What's the difference? It is easy - if you spend your precious money in a marketing campaign and this provokes increased profit, then that is well invested money. — F. Marco-Serrano

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old. — Michel De Montaigne

Use your sword properly, man! You are not some dandified gladiator. You are a legionary and a killer. Killers jab and stab! — Marc Alan Edelheit

I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it — Alexander Stepanov

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that? — Andy Kaufman

Meaningless sex is like eating the worm at the bottom of a tequila bottle: fun in the moment, but not something you'd want to repeat over and over. - MELANTHE OF THE DEIE SORCERI, QUEEN OF PERSUASION — Kresley Cole

What you just witnessed is what being a physical is all about. Nobody is going to teach you that you should let yourself feel like this. You'll probably hear the opposite -- that you should keep a 'clinical distance' and find ways to protect yourself from feeling. That it will cloud your judgment or make you seem weak or less professional. That's bullshit. If you don't let yourself feel this, you're missing out on what really matters. You want to be a healer? This is the cost. This is the essence of what we do. — Michael Saag

We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel. — Jean Cocteau

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system. — William Glasser

I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen. — Peter Mayhew

Is he nuts?"
"I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'."
"So that would be a yes. — Jonathan Maberry

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable. — Carrie Fisher

Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that we-technology can be developed so we can have zero-emissions coal-fired electricity plants. — George W. Bush