Rogowski Quotes & Sayings

I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important for us to tell. We should choose to live our lives nobly with understanding that if you exist your story is just as important to this world as mine and we all have the rights to live and tell the most important story we have ever known The story of our existence — Gregory Willis

However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be purged than its achievements can be expunged. Those who suffered in centuries past are as much beyond our help as those who sinned are beyond our retribution. — Thomas Sowell

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history. — Khaled Hosseini

What makes people good communicators is, in essence, an ability not to be fazed by the more problematic or offbeat aspects of their own characters. They can contemplate their anger, their sexuality, and their unpopular, awkward, or unfashionable opinions without losing confidence or collapsing into self-disgust. They can speak clearly because they have managed to develop a priceless sense of their own acceptability. They like themselves well enough to believe that they are worthy of, and can win, the goodwill of others if only they have the wherewithal to present themselves with the right degree of patience and imagination. As children, these good communicators must have been blessed with caregivers who knew how to love their charges without demanding that every last thing about them be agreeable and perfect. Such parents would have been able to live with the idea that their offspring might sometimes - for a while, at least - be odd, violent, angry, mean, peculiar, — Alain De Botton

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. — Roger Ascham

It annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing, except that squirrels have had a better upbringing. — Karl Pilkington

When you have chosen a path, you must walk it with courage. — Intisar Khanani

'Ghosts' is the most incredible play I've read for years. — Harry Treadaway

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well. — Kathleen Turner

If you are feeling something, then Shakespeare felt it and wrote about it - and wrote about it so eloquently. — Richard McCabe