Remond Quotes & Sayings

The mightiest flame of fire lies in positive mindset. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You know sometimes words have two meanings. — Robert Plant

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations. — Charles Lenox Remond

Our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war. — David Plouffe

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. — Cesare Pavese

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media. — Carly Fiorina

Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. — Hugh MacLeod

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor? — Charles Lenox Remond

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people. — Charles Lenox Remond

Don't be afraid to try, because you never look back on life and smile at what you could have attempted. Joy only brightens your countenance over those things you did attempt. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Like all terrible golfers, Dr. Remond Courtney believed that nothing was too extravagant for his game. He wore Arnold Palmer sweaters and Tom Watson spikes, and carried a full set of Jack Nicklaus MacGregors, including a six-wood that the Golden Bear himself couldn't hit if his life depended on it. — Carl Hiaasen

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand. — Charles Lenox Remond

Theophilus Hopkins was a moderately famous man. You can look him up in the 1860 Britannica. There are three full columns about his corals and his corallines, his anemones and starfish. It does not have anything very useful about the man. It does not tell you what he was like. You can read it three times over and never guess that he had any particular attitude to Christmas pudding. — Peter Carey

It is true to say that the first kill can influence the whole future career of a fighter pilot. Many to whom the first victory over the opponent has been long denied either by unfortunate circumstances or by bad luck can suffer from frustration or develop complexes they may never rid themselves of again. — Adolf Galland