Rionna Flynn Quotes & Sayings

The world is a book and those who stay at home read only a page. — Sean Covey

It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody. It's the truest thing and the simplest thing that does the most good a lot of times and I hope that we can all just reach out to each other. — Julia Roberts

I suppose it was a dream that lasted really about fifty years. By the time universal education had begun to work properly, say 1925, and the time the first teachers started to hold back information, say 1975. So a fifty-year dream."
"I think what's happened is that because they themselves know less than their predecessors, innovators and leaders today have remade the world in their own image. Spellchecks. Search engines. They've remodeled the world so that ignorance is not really a disadvantage. And I should think that increasingly they'll carry on reshaping the world to accommodate a net loss of knowledge. — Sebastian Faulks

We must give ourselves more credit for miracles that do happen within and around us than calling it as coincidence. (Page 96) — Shashi

You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'til they get thumped. — Roy Bean

He left in a state of distraction and a winter coat. — Jeffrey Eugenides

they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong, knowing they will have to sit on one buttock because they must not sit comfortably lest they be asked to rise and leave, knowing they will speak in dampened whispers because they must not let their voices drown those of the owners of the land, knowing they will have to walk on their toes because they must not leave footprints on the new earth lest they be mistaken for those who want to claim the land as theirs. — NoViolet Bulawayo

Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with ... truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation. — Pope John XXIII

My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did. — Jack Black

The dramatic threat of ecological breakdown is teaching us the extent to which greed and selfishness are contrary to the order of creation ... A given culture reveals its understanding of life through the choices it makes in production and consumption ... a great deal of educational and cultural work is urgently needed, including the education of consumers in the responsible use of their power of choice ... — Pope John Paul II

Life was short, and if it wasn't sweet you were in the wrong place with the wrong people — Vikki Wakefield

We aren't cool and never will be. — Chris Martin

When the rain pours down especially, we have long hours of captivity, in which my sisters determinedly grow bored. But are there books, books there are! Rattling words on the page calling my eyes to dance with them. Everyone else will finish with the singular plowing through, and Ada still has discoveries ahead and behind. — Barbara Kingsolver