Ribalto Quotes & Sayings

It is essential to democracy that the elected representatives of the people make the laws that govern this country - and not the judges. — Theresa May

In what is now known as Bodh Gaya ... a Buddhist temple stands beside an ancient pipal, descended from that bodhi tree, or "enlightenment tree," and I watched the rising of the morning star and came away no wiser than before. But later I wondered if the Tibetan monks were aware that the Bodhi tree was murmuring with gusts of birds, while another large pipal, so close by that it touched the holy tree with many branches, was without life. I make no claim for the event: I simply declare what I saw at Bodh Gaya. — Peter Matthiessen

From something as simple as what goes in to a good meatloaf to the not so simple - religion, culture, how you should vote, every damn thing you think or believe, your reactions, your behavior - were partially shaped by who and what your parents were. — Sandra Brown

Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you. — Ernie J Zelinski

He was really OLD. Probably at least thirty. — Robbie Michaels

This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven. — Stephen Charnock

I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain kinds of robots - where they might feel that it is a sort of friendship, but it's going to be of a robot-human kind. — Cynthia Breazeal

Do you," he murmured, "do you have any - Smarties? You brought some once, I remember, in a tube with a lid on. They were small, and many-coloured - all different colors - and they tasted very good. — Amanda Hemingway

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away. — Rainbow Rowell

You have to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada; people who live in ghettos and are not integrated into Western Canadian society. — Stephen Harper

Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"? — Margaret Ayer Barnes

If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path? — Charles Platt