Leaving For A Better Life Quotes

#1. After the long time of going together and the mutual trust that had grown out of that time, Payne had occasion to realize that no mutual trust had grown out of the long time they had gone together.

Thomas McGuane

#2. Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.

Mia Bloom

#3. You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to. -Q

John Green

#4. Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

Harry Browne

#5. Your level of your concentration decides the extent of the realization of your dreams.

Stephen Richards

#6. Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).

Jane Goodall

#7. What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.

Ben Hecht

#8. As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#9. I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

Ron Silver

#10. In the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children victims of trafficking ... Many move simply to avoid dying of hunger. When leaving is not an option but a necessity, this is more than poverty.

Antonio Guterres

#11. Life a series of paths. To helping people. To hurting people. To leaving certain places and certain people behind. For better or worse.

Aaron Starmer

#12. We shall be compelled to renounce the hope of finding philosophical proofs of religious beliefs ... Hence, once more, the value of philosophy must not depend upon any supposed body of definitely ascertainable knowledge to be acquired by those who study it.

Bertrand Russell

#13. Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

Xavier Rudd

#14. Galileo did not want to agree. He never wanted to agree; agreeing was something other people did, with him, after they had disagreed.

Kim Stanley Robinson