Rownyc Quotes & Sayings

Good council has no price. — Giuseppe Mazzini

The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place. — Nancy B. Brewer

As they made their way from the small marina across the campsite and through the town gate to the bakery, an orc came toward them carrying an armful of baguettes. It was accompanied by an elf dressed up as Legolas, its eyes glued to its iPhone. — Nina George

Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.
— Nuala O'Faolain

Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that question is often answered through individual action. — Margaret D. Klein

unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own. — Robert A. Heinlein

Our ancestors are looking for us even if we're not looking for them. And by our ancestors I mean our bloodlines and the ancestors of the place where we live and our spiritual kin who go beyond our biological families. We could be walking around carrying an entire ancestral history of the wrong kind for us. — Robert Moss

Even if a poem is beautiful and memorable, it's not like an advertising jingle or propaganda, which attempt to convince and control. Poems seek to confuse, disabuse, enlarge understanding, and make people ask questions and think for themselves. — Rachel Zucker

Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match. Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory ... — Evonne Goolagong Cawley

There are no beautiful clocks. Everything to do with time is hideous. — Robert Aickman

Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again. — Sarah Dessen

You never know what the American public is going to do, but you know that they will do it all at once. — L. William Seidman

Because I dared. — Sharon Cameron

What's with that?' Butters screamed, his voice high and frightened. 'Just covering his head with his arms? Didn't he see the lawyer in the movie? — Jim Butcher