Retzer Center Quotes & Sayings

I know how to make an impression. Not necessarily a good one. — Lauren Hammond

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. — William Trevor

It hurts to see anybody in pain, if you've got any kind of heart. — Nas

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future. — Christian D. Larson

If people of one's own side have good conduct, it adds power to oneself. The misconduct on the contrary render one powerless. The enemy taks advantage of it. A skilled statesman never allows enemy to win over. — Chanakya

The single hardest thing for a practicing politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don't give politics a first thought all day long. — Tony Blair

The picture, changed or unchanged, would be to him the visible emblem of conscience. — Oscar Wilde

Change is inevitable in music - things change. — John Coltrane

Tolkien is considered the grandfather of fantasy and, for me, I consider myself the grandson, with Terry Brooks as the kind of crazy uncle of fantasy, being the one who brought me into it. — Peter V. Brett

He thinks everything sentimental is tender, everything brutal is a slice of realism ... — J.D. Salinger