Barbarous Jape Quotes

#1. It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Poverty is what you see in the eyes of a Black child living in the squattercamp.

Matsime Simon Mohapi

#4. You can't have what you want to have, without doing what you need to do.

Jim Connolly

#5. Last night I fell asleep in a satellite dish. My dreams were broadcast all over the world.

Steven Wright

#6. There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

Simone Weil

#8. Save the earth! Are you kidding?
If earth needs to save itself, we don't live now boasting about it.

Toba Beta

#9. Try to have a more expanded sense of that which you are. Feel that you are eternity. There's only goodness. There's only light.

Frederick Lenz

#10. All I meant to say is that a rake's humor has its basis in cruelty. He needs a victim, for he cannot imagine ever laughing at himself. You, your grace, are rather clever with the self-deprecating remark.

Julia Quinn

#11. My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love' ... My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family ... the Communist Party was the new patriarch.

Jung Chang

#12. Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.

James A. Haught

#13. This universe was created for the love, by the love, and with love.

Debasish Mridha

#14. In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now.

George Berkeley

#15. I'm a role model for lots of young girls.

Jennie Finch