Serbetospito Quotes & Sayings

A house built on greed cannot long endure. — Edward Abbey

His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know that the solitary life of many a plainsman had a tendency to develop eccentricities of conduct and character not always easily distinguishable from mental aberration. A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone, in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him. — Ambrose Bierce

Good characters make you feel like you have new friends, don't they? You have to re-read the books just to visit with them again. Grace Awakening. Book one: Awakening Dreams — Shawn L. Bird

The world is in need of the unique purpose you were created for — Sunday Adelaja

Consensus is something you have if you cannot have agreement. — Forbes Burnham

The automobile, which began as a transportation convenience, has become a bloody tyrant (50,000 lives a year), and it is the responsibility of the park service, as well as that of everyone else concerned with preserving both wilderness and civilization, to begin a campaign of resistance. — Edward Abbey

Fish in the sea are luminous so that they can recognise one another; might not men and women also exude some kind of speechless luminescence to those akin to them? — Angela Carter

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity. — Claudio Hummes

Frankly, most governments are used to lying to each other - to a degree that most people would find shocking. Part of diplomacy is the art of strategic lying. — Jonathan Turley

Light a campfire and everyone's a storyteller — John Geddes

Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn. — Chris Argyris

Yes - no. Creaking. A rusty handle turning, or a wooden door forced open until its hinges buckle, or to me, to me it was the sound of something growing. I sometimes imagine that if we could hear trees growing we'd hear them...creak...like that. I knocked again, and the creaking stopped, but a silence began. A silence I didn't feel good about at all. But I felt obliged to do whatever I could do...if I left a door closed and it transpired that somebody might have lived if I had only opened it in time...I couldn't bear that...so I had to try the door no matter what. — Helen Oyeyemi

On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives. — Marlene Dietrich

The Asaro tribe of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea has a beautiful saying: "Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle." What we understand and learn about rising strong is only rumor until we live it and integrate it through some form of creativity so that it becomes part of us. — Brene Brown

Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground. — Nell Newman