Requitals Quotes & Sayings

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. — Walter Savage Landor

Some angels are too good to live their entire lives in this inferno. They come to Earth for only a short time because they have a mission. — Cristiane Serruya

Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color. — Charles Demuth

I think I might have secretly wished for you to exist all my life but never knew how to admit it. — Truth Devour

Unlike Joseph her husband, Mary is neither upright nor pious, but she is not blame for this, the blame lies with the language she speaks if not with the men who invented it, because that language has no feminine form for the words upright and pious. — Jose Saramago

Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games. — Pat Gillick

To emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers, and to deemphasize their genocide, is not a technical necessity but an ideological choice. It serves - unwittingly - to justify what was done. — Howard Zinn

Now you say, alas! Christianity is hard; I grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn the difficulty when I respect the advantage. The greatest labors that have answerable requitals are less than the least that have no regard. Believe me, when I look to the reward, I would not have the work easier. It is a good Master whom we serve, who not only pays, but gives; not after the proportion of our earnings, but of His own mercy. — Joseph Hall

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it. — Carl Sagan

Travel wasn't fun if you didn't get to see or do what you wanted; it was merely a different type of work, in a different place. — Chris Pavone

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form. — Clive Bell

You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for. — Maya Angelou

The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared. — Richard Matheson

God is like a mirror, consistent, stable, unchanging; reflecting His image of us, that is always changing. — Anthony Liccione

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe. — John Battelle