Whyrec Quotes & Sayings

This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the frozen tundra of Minnesota, if your neighbor's car won't start, you put on your parka and get the jumper cables out and deliver the Sacred Spark that starts their car. Everybody knows this. The logical extension of this spirit is social welfare and the myriad government programs with long dry names all very uninteresting to you until you suddenly need one ... — Garrison Keillor

The course of everything goes to teach us faith. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from. — Terrence McNally

I bet you don't hear no a lot."
"It's a dirty word. I'm not a fan of it. — Katee Robert

We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong. — Caitlin Moran

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience. — Dalai Lama XIV

So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it. — J. Maarten Troost

You want to believe there are limits to what money can make happen, lines it can't cross. — Zadie Smith

Writing in journalism teaches you to be very comfortable taking criticism, being edited, and rewriting. — Neil Drumming

Let go of fighting your habits. Simply be present and observe their patterns. This will help you to break free until the negative patterns eventually subside. — Christopher Dines