Rickabye Quotes & Sayings

We are on track for a 3.5 deg C rise by 2040 (i.e. 4.2 deg C relative to pre-industrial) ... When I look at this data, the trend is perfectly in line with a temperature increase of 6 degrees Celsius, which would have devastating consequences for the planet. We have 5 years to change the energy system, or have it changed — Fatih Birol

Men like to flirt with, and sometimes even date a wild child, but those women aren't usually first on their lists for marriage or motherhood. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

It's not easy to talk like this with other people because they don't know. They don't know what it's like to be hated by the people who are supposed to love you. — Rebecca Donovan

There's not a word nevertheless, for previous pals who've just fulfilled. — Jim Henson

There are places in my heart ... where no living soul ... has ... or can ever ... trespass. — Harold Pinter

There is no good answer to being a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question. — Rebecca Solnit

America does not repel the past or what it has produced under its forms or amid other politics or the idea of castes or the old religions . . . . accepts the lesson with calmness ... is not so impatient as has been supposed that the slough still sticks to opinions and manners and literature while the life which served its requirements has passed into the new life of the new forms ... perceives that the corpse is slowly borne from the eating and sleeping rooms of the house ... perceives that it waits a little while in the door ... that it was fittest for its days ... that its action has descended to the stalwart and wellshaped heir who approaches ... and that he shall be fittest for his days. — Walt Whitman

Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health. — Elisabeth Tova Bailey

I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory. — George A. Romero

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like. — Julian Assange

Then the servant left, taking with him ten of his master's camels loaded with all kinds of good things from his master (Genesis 24:10). If we relate this to our being sent out on a mission by our heavenly master, the focus all the time should be on our master and not on ourselves. We owe nothing, and our entire mission is on behalf of our master. — Samuel Ngewa

Then his head tipped down on his chest and he fell into the instant sleep of the ancient and the very young. — Louise Erdrich