Rounsevelle Quotes & Sayings

An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi

And my brain goes quiet and my heart is calm and my life is at a standstill, and the pendulum that I am, all the swinging to and fro, finally stops and I feel like I finally found my center. — Katy Evans

There's actually no point in following in another's footsteps TOO exactly, you'll end up leaving no tracks of your own. — Mike A. Lancaster

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn. — Kieran Culkin

I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it. — Stephen Fry

The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow both possible and easy. — Vladimir Lenin

Righteous anger could be a valuable tool, but it needed to be rational anger. Anger against evil. Anger against wrongs. It had to be wielded the same way any weapon was wielded. It needed to be wielded with reasoned wisdom tempered with maturity. It had to be respected for the damage it could do not only to evil, but also to the innocent. He knew that sometimes ability grew faster than the sense to know when not to use it, like a young man who grew muscles before growing wise enough not to be easily provoked into using them. — Terry Goodkind

This process of being mature in an anxious organisation has been likened to learning to sail against the wind; and as any sailor will tell you, this requires concentration and tolerating some tension as the wind pressures the vessel to let it take over the controls. Good skippers know how to tolerate sufficient tension to keep a steady course. They don't try to overpower their vessel with too much sail in order to get to the finish line faster, as they know this will inevitably knock them backwards. They also know not to panic and retreat to the safe harbour of familiarity. They focus on their key tasks of setting the course and letting the crew know their intensions so that each person can get on with focusing on their own tasks. There's only one path to growing this ability: through patient, thoughtful perseverance in the midst of experience ... no short cuts to be found. — Jenny Brown

The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which they are the central point. — Pope John Paul II

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity. — Dejan Stojanovic

I wouldn't call myself an actor or a singer for that matter, just a journeyman. [ ... ] I feel I must have a talent somewhere for doing something but I'm still not terribly sure what it is. I suppose it's a talent for being myself. — Ronnie Drew

I do what I do instinctively, and that's me. If you like me, that's fine; if you don't like me then don't watch me. — Colin Fletcher

the guy had a hot date — Kathy Reichs

Civilization is only skin deep, and so is barbarism. Had your country never broken its word and been as just as it is powerful, your red men would have been to-day where our brown men are - our equals." An — Rounsevelle, 1864-1901 Wildman

Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series. — Salman Rushdie