Russets Country Quotes & Sayings

I Don't want someone who's perfect because I'm not perfect. I want someone who's real; someone who complements me rather than completes me. — J.C. Reed

It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ. — Hugh Reginald Haweis

I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him. — Ben Bailey

The simple view is that medicine exists to fight death and disease, and that is, of course, its most basic task. Death is the enemy. But the enemy has superior forces. Eventually, it wins. And, in a war that you cannot win, you don't want a general who fights to the point of total annihilation. You don't want Custer. You want Robert E. Lee, someone who knew how to fight for territory when he could and how to surrender when he couldn't, someone who understood that the damage is greatest if all you do is fight to the bitter end. — Atul Gawande

What was she supposed to do? She wanted to fight. That's what she was trained to do and used to doing - she identified the enemy and dispatched it. — Brooke Reninger

Places of the imagination are visited in books. Seen in reality they may be hard to recognize; they are disappointing, they might even seem fake. — Elena Ferrante

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition. — Jane Yolen