Ruta Lee Quotes & Sayings

Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary. — Winston Graham

...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest.... — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

I have seen horrible places and have risked my life, but I know that somehow God will always save me. — Kenji Goto

I'm too old to be ignorant as I am."
--Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality. — Elle Thornton

We lay our words like tenuous plats, build a bridge over its
unsinkable depth: Not a sea of longing,
but the brack of wanting what's physical
to help us forget we are physical. — Cate Marvin

I hadn't felt too awful lying to Braden since his three-sixty back into predatory hottie with wicked eyes and fuck-me smile was the sole reason I'd had to resort to lying in the first place. — Samantha Young

There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few soils: And in the main it will be found, that a power over a man's support is a power over his will. — Alexander Hamilton

It felt so bad to be alive in that moment, — Anonymous

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it. — Henry David Thoreau

He had to do so, because he learned through the lesson of petals and thorns and a pretty girl that you are only worth how good your soul truly is. — Jenni James

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays. — Hannah Simone

I was called a terrorist yesterday ... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one. — Nelson Mandela

I was planning on procrastinating today ... but never got around to it. — Quentin R. Bufogle

Our life is made by the death of others. — Leonardo Da Vinci