Roxrite Red Quotes

#1. We learn
that all life
is scarce yet abundant.
Profane yet
sacred.
Loving
yet hateful.
Enlightened
yet obscured.
Isolated yet
collective.
That life is
somehow derived from love.

A.P. Sweet

#2. Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions.

Albert Einstein

#3. Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

William Safire

#4. To be in continual ecstasies over nature shows poverty of imagination. In comparison with what my imagination can give me, all these streams and rocks are trash, and nothing else.

Anton Chekhov

#5. Judging requires a lot of negative energy. When we stop our thoughts from judging another person's hidden motive, intention or character, and simply address our differences, we create a dialogue of peace and reconciliation.

Hwa Sung Ryu

#6. Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.

Albert Camus

#8. The Internet is a great way to get on the net.

Bob Dole

#9. Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.

Rick Warren

#10. I've learned that generosity is far easier than justice and that, in the highly distorted markets of the poor, it is all too easy to veer only toward the charitable, to have low
or no
expectations for low-income people. This does nothing but reaffirm prejudices on all sides.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#11. It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.

Cab Calloway

#12. Over the years, I've learned, focus on the job at hand, and opportunities will open after.

Antonio Villaraigosa

#13. But just as we do not forgive for others, we also do not forgive for God.

Desmond Tutu

#14. Suzuki also frequently quotes a sentence of Eckhart's: "The eye wherein I see God is the same eye wherein God sees me" (Suzuki, Mysticism: East and West, p. 50) as an exact expression of what Zen means by Prajna.

Thomas Merton