Short Volunteering Quotes & Sayings

Australian pro surfer Dave Rastovich, straddling his board waiting for a wave, was astonished to watch a dolphin hurtle itself at a shark that was torpedoing toward him, sending it fleeing. (Coincidentally, only two days earlier Rastovich had launched a nonprofit group, Surfers for Cetaceans, to protect dolphins and whales.) — Susan Casey

The one person who would understand is the one person I can't call. Jesse. I've sworn off Jesse. No good can come from him. From that. He and I are like two hurricanes colliding from separate bodies of water. — Lily Paradis

A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough. — E. W. Scripps

it was useless to divide it into months and years, and the days into hours, when one could do nothing, but contemplate the rain — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I don't want to die and come back and not remember your face, Will. I don't want to spend another lifetime not knowing who you are! — Courtney Allison Moulton

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology. — Adrian Desmond

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff. — Mark Ruffalo

A woman can do men without penetrating them; they ride them, like I want you to ride me, they suck cazzone like I want your pretty mouth to do right now. — Marita A. Hansen

Everyone has an opportunity to be great because everyone has an opportunity to serve. — Martin Luther King Jr.

On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years. We've just lost a great writer in Antonin Scalia. — Dahlia Lithwick

The corporation is the dominant and dominating institution of our time. Governments identify growth and development with commercial corporations and shower them with subsidies, tax privileges, and appropriate labour legislation and market support to attract a commitment and investment. — Eric Kierans

Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could. — Paulo Coelho