Riikka Pitkonen Quotes & Sayings

We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war. These prior struggles for survival were won when leaders found words at the 11th hour that released a mighty surge of courage, hope and readiness to sacrifice for a protracted and mortal challenge. — Al Gore

For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones. — Veronica Roth

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against. — John Sculley

Self-giving is the only pathway to a meaningful life in this world and is the habit of heart that leads us into the world to come, but it is the opposite of the egocentric grasping we see increasingly around us. — Collin Raye

We must begin to train lawyers the minute they walk into law school to tell the truth. They must immediately begin to learn the business of representing people. They must be assigned cases the first day. — Gerry Spence

I've always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I liked to audit them. — Scott Snyder

It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us. — Barack Obama

And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile. — John Henry Newman

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. — Pattiann Rogers