Rostros Quotes & Sayings

A nation, therefore, has no right to say to a province: You belong to me, I want to take you. A province consists of its inhabitants. If anybody has a right to be heard in this case it is these inhabitants. Boundary disputes should be settled by plebiscite. — Ludwig Von Mises

Finally, never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others. — Pema Chodron

She loved Percy for trying to lift her spirits. Annabeth Chase — Rick Riordan

In other words, no matter how well documented or noble our cause is, it won't be helped by our feeling aggression toward the oppressors or those who are promoting the danger. Nothing will ever change through aggression. — Pema Chodron

Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears. — Dick Gregory

I never have been involved in politics. — Rick Warren

This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy. — Mark Twain

He decided that the time had come to decide what he would make of his life. He went, that night, to the roof of his tenement and looked at the lights of the city, the city where he did not run things. He let his eyes move slowly from the windows of the sagging hovels around him to the windows of the mansions in the distance. There were only lighted squares hanging in space, but he could tell from them the quality of the structures to which they belonged; the lights around him looked muddy, discouraged; those in the distance were clean and tight. He asked himself a single question: what was there that entered all those houses, the dim and the brilliant alike, what reached into every room, into every person? They all had bread. Could one rule men through the bread they bought? They had shoes, they had coffee, they had ... The course of his life was set. — Ayn Rand

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once. — Jane Bryant Quinn

But you can't very well lug an encyclopedia around hotels. Fortunately, I did have my flask. — Elizabeth Savage