Jacob August Riis Quotes

#1. The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

Ilsa J. Bick

#2. Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".

Norman Vincent Peale

#3. When the head of the Hyundai Motor Company, Chung Mong-koo, was fighting with his younger brother Chung Mong-hun over the company's management, he is said to have consulted a fortune-teller.

Kim Young-ha

#4. My Sister Rosa was bumped from the schedule. None of my books has ever been bumped before. It freaked me out.

Justine Larbalestier

#5. Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.

Jacob August Riis

#6. When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.

Mario Balotelli

#7. Truth reforms as well as informs.

William Jenkyn

#8. There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.

Dan Gable

#9. Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community.

James Q. Wilson

#10. I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.

Tamsin Greig

#11. The real in me longs for peace.
The unreal in me longs for power.

Sri Chinmoy

#12. There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

Seneca.

#13. If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.

Jacqueline Carey

#14. Where there is anger, apply loving kindness. Where there is evil, offer good. Where there is stinginess, be generous. Where there are lies, be truthful.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#15. Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. (PSALM 34:8)

Lysa TerKeurst