Revisal Download Quotes & Sayings

We have to keep asserting that people committ crimes not because they come from so-called deprived backgrounds, but because they're wicked. The statistics showing that only .00137% of all crimes of senseless violence are carried out by stockbrokers from Sunningdale prove only that folk are stockbrokers because they have a sense of right and wrong - not vice versa. — William Donaldson

Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion. — Richard J. Foster

Away in the distance, a train appeared behind the trees, all its compartments were lit, the windows were sure to be open. One of us started singing a ballad, but we all wanted to sing. We sang far quicker than the speed of the train, we swung our arms because our voices weren't enough, our voices got into a tangle where we felt happy. If you mix your voice with others' voices, you feel as though you're caught on a hook. (trans. Michael Hofmann) — Franz Kafka

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. — Maya Lin

Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results. — Hossein Malek-Afzali

Look for your other half
Who walks along next to you,
And tends to be what you aren't. — Antonio Machado

There are some favors that can't be bought, and some kindnesses that should only be given freely. — Julianne Donaldson

We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow. — Maya Angelou

This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put. — Winston S. Churchill

One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation. — B.R. Ambedkar

We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. And to look at it less selfishly, we also need to be grateful for the luck of where we're born and how we ended up where we ended up. — Natalie Portman