Winter Hibiscus Quotes & Sayings

I would much rather have somebody say, "You know what? I just didn't like what you were doing," then say, "They didn't know what they were doing." I know what I'm doing. If it's going to be bad, or if it's great, it's me, in either case. — J.H. Wyman

Our beliefs, our values shape the way we look out at the world and the way we treat it. If we believe that we were here, placed here by God, that this - all of this creation is for us, it's for us to go and occupy, dominate and exploit, then we will proceed to do that. — David Suzuki

The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world. — Bernardine Dohrn

You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are. — Italo Calvino

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy. — Edwidge Danticat

PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs. — Markus Persson

In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla. — Diane Ackerman

Direct me gods, whose changes are all holy, To where it flickers deep in grass, the moly. — Thom Gunn

Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished from the ruins of former continents, from the dissolution of rocks, or the destruction of animal or vegetable bodies, similar, at least in some respects, to those that now occupy the surface of the earth. — John Playfair

Our economy now rewards artists far more than any other economy in history ever has. — Seth Godin