Rosa Elena Ortega Quotes & Sayings

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite. — Keren Ann

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. — William Least Heat-Moon

Don't waste your precious time on people who do not appreciate your value. Learn to use your perfume on the pigs when they also learn to bath. — Israelmore Ayivor

Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings collapse overhead and burst into flames, and dead bodies hurtle about and, when it is over for the day or the night, emerge in the rubble to find some of their dear ones mangled, their homes gone, their hospitals, churches, schools demolished - only after that gruesome experience will we realize what we are inflicting on the people of Indochina. — William L. Shirer

Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other ... the good that flows from it will shape our societies in an unprogrammed, unforeseen way, under the control of no single group of people or set of ideas. — Ian McEwan

At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0. — Robert Kiyosaki

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. — Rabindranath Tagore

In ourselves our safety must be sought.
By our own right hand it must be wrought. — William Wordsworth

Isn't that the last straw; for not only did we have to suffer the unspeakableness of slavery, but the satisfaction to be had from "We made you bastards rich" is taken away, too. — Jamaica Kincaid

I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic. — Liam Gallagher