Retrenched Quotes & Sayings

I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of. — Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle.

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick. — Saint Francis De Sales

All of the great leaders down through history have told us we become what we think about. In fact, they have been in complete and unanimous agreement on this point while they disagree on almost every other point. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people rarely think, they simply accept what they see or hear. The next time someone gives you a suggestion, rather than simply accepting and acting on the suggestion - THINK - exercise your reasoning factor. Ask yourself if the suggestion will improve the quality of your life. — Bob Proctor

It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability. — Elliott Abrams

Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched. — Steve Martin

The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices. — Fred Savage

We're not just going to have a life, remember? We're going to live. — T.M. Frazier