Rinoa Heartilly Quotes & Sayings

Our life alternates between billets and the front. We have almost grown accustomed to it; war is the cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis, like influenza and dysentery. The deaths are merely — Erich Maria Remarque

I look up at the shining silvery coin of a moon rolling around in the sky and think I might be seeing the miracles. — Jandy Nelson

I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had to learn to see No-focus from the beginning. — Ralph Eugene Meatyard

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation. — Richard Attias

It should make people nervous when non-transparent regimes, that have announced that they've got nuclear warheads, fire missiles. This is not the way you conduct business in the world. This is not the way that peaceful nations conduct their affairs. — George W. Bush

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic. — Studs Terkel

In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75. — Douglas Coupland

Unless they're a fugitive or a felon, or adjudicated mentally ill, we're not against them buying guns at all. — Sarah Brady

There is still, I think, not enough recognition by teachers of the fact that the desire to think
which is fundamentally a moral problem
must be induced before the power is developed. Most people, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process. — Vera Brittain

Use a flamethrower to shed a little light on what you got in the ammo store, why dontcha? — Mark Henwick

From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence
in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug ... I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
- from Harper's Notebook, November 2010 — Lewis H. Lapham

The first thing people look at with Four Seasons records is the vocals. But for me, the drum fills and rhythms are as much a part of it as anything. They're the base on which the harmonies were built. — Bob Gaudio

Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead. He is detached, thus at one with all. Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment. — Laozi

Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life — Napoleon Hill

A pitcher is worth a thousand worts. — Hannah Hart