Rickyl Quotes & Sayings

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong. — Frank Miller

Oft times, we must fight a battle, if only to learn to lay down our arms. — Shaman Elizabeth Herrera

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously. — Minoru Yamasaki

Allow yourself to let go, surrender, and breathe in the beautiful world that is waiting for you just outside of your comfort zone. — Leigh Hershkovich

I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the gap - at least in the books I was reading - between what people tell stories about and what I actually feel. I started thinking about a gap between fantasy and reality. — Signe Baumane

A presumption becomes a self-refuting assertion".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it. — Quentin Bryce

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art. — Bruno Tonioli

The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. — Charlaine Harris

I sort of loved the bustle of a thousand questions. Women are inherently kind of multitaskers. — Lake Bell

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too. — Eli Siegel