Ribattere Quotes & Sayings

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in. — Danny Silk

They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too. — Robert Cormier

I don't remember being a keen reader, but apparently I was. My aunt told me that whenever I was teased for reading, I would say, "To each his own." — Sefi Atta

Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway. — Ray Stevenson

Humility is not thinking less of myself, but thinking about myself less. — Anonymous

It was broken. It was haunted. Just like her.
But it had bones, and it had memories, and it had the ability to be something strong again. Just like her. — Lauren Gilley

We both had wanted to see a Mark Rothko exhibit at the Yale Art Gallery but, because of a labor dispute, some of the university's buildings, including the museum, were closed. As Bill and I walked by, he decided he could get us in if we offered to pick up the litter that had accumulated in the gallery's courtyard. Watching him talk our way in was the first time I saw his persuasiveness in action. We had the entire museum to ourselves. We wandered through the galleries talking about Rothko and twentieth-century art. I admit to being surprised at his interest in and knowledge of subjects that seemed, at first, unusual for a Viking from Arkansas. We ended up in the museum's courtyard, where I sat in the large lap of Henry Moore's sculpture Drape Seated Woman while we talked until dark. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

God doesn't owe you an explanation or reason for everything he asks you to do. Understanding can wait, but obedience can't. — Rick Warren

When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. — Sylvia Plath

I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now. — Ann Wilson

Sheriff Mossberg was one of those people who never stop speaking until
they are finished, so by this time he was saying: "Do you understand
these rights?"
"No, sir! Mi ne komprenas Dumbtalk! — L.J.Smith

When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite. — Judith Martin

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live. — Napoleon Bonaparte

A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job. — Joseph Goebbels

Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false. — P.D. James