Rampton Quotes

#1. I saw people rise out of poverty right in front of me ... It made me believe that the market was the most powerful tool for change that we could hope to have.

Paul Rice

#2. Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right.

Christine Caine

#3. You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react.

John Rampton

#4. One lunatic in Rampton used to have bouts of hysteria. Where he would let out a scream, and run at a wall and dive headfirst ... crash! He was given a crash helmet! (Well it is a mad house.)

Stephen Richards

#5. I live by four words and I have it tattooed on my arms as well. It just says, 'Live, learn, love life'. So you live your life to the best way you can. Every situation is a learning one so take those lessons, learn from it and love your life.

Chris Johnson

#6. Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives human.

Abhijit Naskar

#7. Cats never feel threatened. They are genetically incapable of accepting that anyone could possibly dislike anything as perfect as a cat.

Kathy Young

#8. Rampton suggested that one could derive a "fair picture of a man's true attitudes and motives from what he says and from the kind of people he associates with and speaks to.

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#9. I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.

Tracey Emin

#10. Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the hands of the experts.

Sheldon Rampton

#11. In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.

George Eliot

#12. Sometimes rules have to be broken; sometimes you have to follow your heart. Sometimes doing what you're told isn't always the right thing to do. I'm sure we wouldn't have all these great inventions and philosophies if people always just did what they were told.

Dannika Dark

#13. I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattle I was always doing very dramatic work. Now I can't get a dramatic role to save my life!

Anna Faris

#14. I firmly believe that 90 percent of the confusion that women feel when they are attempting to put together an occasion-specific ensemble is caused by fear: fear of breaking the 'fashion rules,' fear of violating some long-forgotten tradition, or the basic fear of looking bad.

Nina Garcia

#15. Do you even know what a salad is?"
"Sure," Jordan said, smiling. "It's that stuff they invented a sneeze-guard for.

Jodi Picoult

#16. Artemisia maintained a reserved silence for as long as she could, but by the time they entered the tranquillity of the park her amicability had reasserted itself. Besides, she concluded that there was no point in ignoring a person when they were so obtuse as to not realise they were being ignored.

D.G. Rampton