Rischbieters Quotes & Sayings

Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society? — Robert B. Reich

What is a monster? Something that grows hair all over and howls? Could be. But the real monster is within, and when it comes out, it's as fugly as you see it, or as it lets you see it. — John Vamvas Olga Montes

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion ... and a man no longer believes he is a man. — John Eldredge

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display. — Nadeem Aslam

Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low. — John F. Kennedy

And at once he went on with his burden, as though afraid that he might already have said too much in this country where the past was sharp splinters embedded in men's minds and an ill-judged word a false step in the dark. — Richard Adams

When things come to the worse, they generally mend. — Susanna Moodie

There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims. — Robert Spencer

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine. — Mel Gibson

[While writing history], I've kept the most interesting company imaginable with people long gone. Some I've come to know better than many I know in real life, since in real life we don't get to read other people's mail. — David McCullough

In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other. — Mark Twain

The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you created and you didn't totally know how. You just knew you could, so you did. It wasn't thinking and it wasn't imitating somebody else's moves, though you always looked carefully when you watched good players play. But when you played ... it was something you couldn't explain. Neal used to know. It didn't come from thinking about it. — Doug Wilhelm

I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that l the power of Christ may rest upon me. — Anonymous

Maybe all crows were just creepy. — Kami Garcia