Rankin Quotes

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

You can quit your job, but you can't quit your calling.

If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I’ve just put a dice in my tea.

When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive.

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.

I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look cold.

If you surround yourself with talented people and you give them the freedom to achieve, then the work will never fail.

A good album should be more than the sum of its parts.

It's important to be honest enough about your work, and the areas in which you can improve. I'm still learning every day and I'm still Hungry to create more and better work, hence the name.

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

The body isn’t the foundation of your health. The body is the physical manifestation of the sum of your life experiences.

Killing more people won't help matters.

When your life falls apart, you either grow, or you grow a tumor.

When you focus on gratitude, positive things flow in more readily, making you even more grateful.

Rebus was eating breakfast in the canteen and wishing there was more caffeine in the coffee, or more coffee in the coffee come to that.

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!

The longest journey you'll ever make is the journey from the head to the heart

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.

We are all incredibly different and rather than being something to be ashamed of, that's something to really celebrate.

You have to believe in what you're doing otherwise what's the point?

At the end of the day, it's only a photograph and if someone is going to get really upset about a photograph, then they have a lot of issues. I just roll with it and see what happens.

At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.

Photography to me is an addiction. I get jittery after a couple of days without a camera. Everyone who knows me says I'm happiest when I'm shooting.

My dad would often take me to the cinema and I found myself really seduced by the imagery, I think this had a massive impact on how I viewed the world.

I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.

I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.

No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more.

Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.

Everyone misbehaves,' said Eddie. 'That's nature. Everyone gets away with as much as they can get away with. And the more they can get away with, the more they will.

Love opens your heart, trumps fear, and paves the way for healing in all aspects of your life.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

There can be no compromise with war.

The United Nations is the greatest fraud in history. Its purpose is to destroy the United States.

Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.

It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.

If I took fear out of the equation, what would I change about how I spend my days?

It really helps if you've got something like cycling, walking, running or swimming that can let your body release all that tension and keep your muscles fit.

[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.

Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.