Y20 Quotes & Sayings

Small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You're the one who has to watch for the open door. — Donna Tartt

Reciprocity is not mandatory. — David Lubar

I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there is too much information coming into my head from the outside world. It is like when you are upset and you hold the radio against your ear and you tune it halfway between two stations so that all you get is white noise and then you turn the volume right up so that this is all can hear and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything else — Mark Haddon

I tried to bring them back, but apparently fixing the bodies doesn't return the souls. — Brandon Sanderson

Never look back in regret - move on to the next thing. — Richard Branson

I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee. — Mark Twain

This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the state and in the country. — Dave Obey

Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students, but, as any academic Dean will tell you, it's up to the students to seek it out, something that a drowning minority student will seek to avoid at all costs, fearing it will trumpet a second-class status. — Ron Suskind

Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity. — Ralph Bunche

Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out. — Guy Kawasaki

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. — Nelson Mandela

The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker to Wiemar, and to Goethe's house. Goethe urged me to go in with him for a while, and I did so. He was in an extremely engaging mood. He talked a great deal about his theory of colors, and of his obstinate opponents; remarking that he was sure that he had done something in this science. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. — Thomas Jefferson