Quotes & Sayings About Turquoise Stone

The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this. — Paul Auster

I think that for humans, the most regrettable of omissions, along with unshed tears and unexamined lives, is untold stories, the things not shared, the lost opportunity to be honest about oneself and tender toward others. — Martha M. Moravec

Unrestricted nationalism is, in the long run, incompatible with world peace. — Bertrand Russell

Think boys, think! I cannot do it for you. — Jonathan Renshaw

Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet too. — Joe R. Lansdale

The schools wear the blank faces of war buildings, their windows blown blind by rocks or guns or mortars. Their plaster is an acne of bullet marks. The huts and small houses crouch open and vulnerable; their doors are flimsy pieces of plyboard or sacks hanging and lank. Children and chickens and dogs scratch in the red, raw soil and stare at us as we drive through their open, eroding lives. — Alexandra Fuller

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book? — Julian Barnes

All I care about is making sure that I leave behind an America that is stronger, more prosperous, more stable, more secure than it was when I came into office and that's going to continue to drive me. — Barack Obama

I don't subscribe to that school of thought that leadership can be altogether defined by gender. — Dalia Grybauskaite

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution. — Dustin Hoffman

I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions. — Adrienne Rich

If only we had the power to see ourselves in the same way that others see us.' Of all the mantras one might adopt in life, this is surely one of the better ones and for anyone in a leadership role it should be an essential part of the checks and balances that are built into a company's standard operating procedures. — Richard Branson