Rikkia Holmes Quotes & Sayings

Others may take away your means of support, they may take away your opportunity to grow and may even cause you to doubt your self-worth. But only you can give away your dignity, only you can give away your voice to proclaim who you really are, and only you can give away those pieces of your soul that make you human and determine your character. — Tonny K. Brown

Someone creates a trick, many people perfect it, but its final success in front of an audience depends on the person who presents it. — Rene Lavand

Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States, and the incidence is growing rapidly. In 2009, the C.D.C. reported thirty-eight thousand cases, three times more than in 1991. Most researchers agree that the true number of infections is five to ten times higher. — Michael Specter

Losing is essential to anyone's success. The more you lose, the more you want to win. — Brett Hull

Try to get inside the skins of others. Think how they feel, how they react, and guide your own conduct by that. — Helen Valentine

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue. — Benjamin Franklin

But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out; enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name. Immolation is what she wants, however briefly. To exist without boundaries. — Margaret Atwood

She wants to lead the glamorous life, but without love, it ain't much. — Sheila E.

When I ask Connie about China, she gives nice, polite prepackaged answers. She is used to talking about it. She wants to make sure I have a nice time. — Anonymous

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks. — Teresa Of Avila

On the other hand, there is no sin in thought, word, or deed, no matter how personal or secret, that does not inflict injury upon the whole fellowship. An element of sickness gets into the body; perhaps nobody knows where it comes from or in what member it has lodged, but the body is infected. This is the proper metaphor for the Christian community. We are members of a body, not only when we choose to be, but in our whole existence. Every member serves the whole body, either to its health or to its destruction. This is no mere theory; it is a spiritual reality. And the Christian community has often experienced its effects with disturbing clarity, sometimes destructively and sometimes fortunately. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer