Ricky Lahey Quotes & Sayings

Being shot at for years by men of a particular nationality will tend to impact negatively upon one's view of them. — John Connolly

My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That hostility is learned in defense; not offense. An often stubborn and prideful world, in its self-destructive, temporary bliss of ignorance, may be violently resistant to the watchful mind. — Criss Jami

I started going gray in my early twenties. — Matt LeBlanc

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed. — Sandra Bernhard

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it. — Henry Hampton

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. — Ronald Dworkin

If you give a boy a lake and a log he will very rapidly invent the ship. — Patrick Brophy

A man or a woman is said to be absorbed when the water has total control of him, and he no control of the water. A swimmer moves around willfully. An absorbed being has no will but the water's going. Any word or act is not really personal, but the way the water has of speaking or doing. As when you hear a voice coming out of a wall, and you know that it's not the wall talking, but someone inside, or perhaps someone outside echoing off the wall. Saints are like that. They've achieved the condition of a wall, or a door. — Rumi

It is unhealthy to marinate in your own press clippings. — Sam Walton

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it. — Max Hastings