Rongomaiwahine Quotes & Sayings

Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack? — George Carlin

Birds shouldn't be able to find tears
They are the definition of freedom — Maddy Kobar

If it is bad to be all dressed up and no place to go, it is almost worse to be full of talk and to have no one to talk it to. — P.G. Wodehouse

Although everyone does benefit from lower-priced goods and services, people also care greatly about the chance to be productively employed and the quality of their work. Declining employment opportunities feel real and immediate; the rise in real incomes brought by lower prices does not. — Michael Spence

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think. — Brene Brown

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts. - WORDSWORTH. — George Eliot

Imagination is a confident hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people. — Jim C. Hines

She's as nutty as squirrel poo. — J.K. Rowling

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind. — James Madison

There's always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up. — Carol Goodman

Something she'd gotten from Burton — William Gibson

Jack Miles's wonderful literary reading of the Hebrew Bible as a biography of God offers the insight that after the Book of Job, God never speaks again. God may seem to silence Job, but Job silences God. It is lovely that Job silencing God is part of the text (though likely an accidental order of the books), because it reflects a real change in the real world after the Book of Job came into it. — Jennifer Michael Hecht