Retical Quotes & Sayings

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak. — Booker T. Washington

HARTMANN observed something very much like insight which his theo- retical background led him to interpret otherwise: The difference between these records [for monkeys] and those of the chicks, cats and dogs ... is undeniable. Whereas the latter were practically unanimous ... in showing a process of gradual learning by a gradual elimination of unsuccessful — Anonymous

Aaliyah wanted a reaction out of Malachi, but he refused to give her one. As — Nako

The period of youth is the glory of nature, and the healthful development of all the resources of strength deposited in our nature is the glory of youth. — Elias Lyman Magoon

Some who are fortunate enough to have communities still do fight to keep them, but they have seldom prevailed. While people possess a community, they usually understand that they can't afford to lose it; but after it is lost, gradually even the memory of what was lost is lost. — Jane Jacobs

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies. — Iris Murdoch

When the Lakota leader Sitting Bull was asked by a white reporter why his people loved and respected him, Sitting Bull replied by asking if it was not true that among white people a man is respected because he has many horses, many houses? When the reporter replied that was indeed true, Sitting Bull then said that his people respected him because he kept nothing for himself. — Joseph Bruchac

Man persists in waywardness. If one institution fails [he says], try another - anything but God's plan. — Billy Graham

For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory. — Khalil Gibran

I watched him walk behind the bamboo bars. Black stripes and sunlit white fur flashed through the slits in the dark bamboo; it was like watching the slow-down reels of an old black-and-white film. He was walking in the same line, again and again - from one end of the bamboo bars to the other, then turning around and repeating it over, at exactly the same pace, like a thing under a spell. He was hypnotizing himself by walking like this - that was the only way he could tolerate this cage — Aravind Adiga

We change when the pain to change is less than the pain to remain as we are. — Ed Foreman

All surfeit is the father of much fast. — William Shakespeare

Rose finally found her voice and turned on Dimitri. "Really? This guy? Are you sure?" I shared her disbelief. — Richelle Mead

Every breath is a new beginning and a new chance. — Julia Gregson