Riken Keiki Quotes & Sayings

If you have a big splash of ecstasy in your life every day you are going to teach students something finer than "buy low/sell high". Maybe you'll teach them, not by what you say but by who you are, to live their lives as a standing affront to the ravaging mercantile mentality. — Mary Rose O'Reilley

Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit. — Herman Melville

Although crimes may win an empire, they do not win glory. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I've learned enough about privilege to know that we're at our most dangerous when we think we've learned everything we need to know about it. That's when you stop paying attention to injustice. And make no mistake, not paying attention because you're not the one getting harassed or fired or pulled over or underpaid is the definition of privilege. — Brene Brown

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past. — Paulette Goddard

God doesn't do coincidences. You can bet your ass. — Matthew Quick

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot. — Paul Cezanne

And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps on the breast, the coughs that have turned nasty. In the Marie Curie Ward on the fourth floor are the kids with cancer. Their bodies secretly and slowly being consumed.
And then there's the mortuary, where the dead lie in refrigerated drawers with name tags on their feet. — Jenny Downham

Zane stole her breath and her common sense with just a smile. When he actually touched her, it was even worse. — Nicole Edwards

Thank you," he whispered against my hair.
"How did that taste in your mouth?"
He laughed. "Awful. — Kasie West

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration. — Anne Lamott

I loved growing up in Washington, but I have been a diehard, 100 percent 49ers fan since I was 11. — Michael Mina

Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name. — Anonymous

After 87 pictures in 47 years, I knew when to quit. — Joel McCrea