Rhetta Parks Quotes & Sayings

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it. — Michael Morpurgo

Every city has a single word that defines it, that identifies most poeple who live there. If you could read people's thoughts as they were passing you on the streets of any given place, you would discover that most of them are thinking the same thought. Whatever that majority thought might be - that is the word of the city. And if your personal word does not match the word of the city, then you don't really belong there. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Is that what he thinks? I mean, I know it's the truth, but it shouldn't be what he thinks. Husbands should think the best of their wives, as a matter of principle. — Sophie Kinsella

Anxiety beclouds the future ... — Abraham Lincoln

Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing. — Gina Carano

Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God. — Calvin Coolidge

No one gets out of here alive. — Jim Morrison

Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you're setting free is yourself. — Darrell Calkins

I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying. — Bob Balaban

The key to love unlocks the doors of friendship. — Matshona Dhliwayo

To meditate is not to empty the mind and gape at things in a trancelike stupor. Nothing significant will ever be revealed by just staring blankly at an object long and hard enough. To meditate is to probe with intense sensitivity each glimmer of color, each cadence of sound, each touch of another's hand, each fumbling word that tries to utter what cannnot be said. The — Stephen Batchelor