Embers Quotes

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

Remember, you have no companions but your shadow

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Just remember...you are the one with everything to lose.

I remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell - she was the brunette in it and I was the blonde. She got $200,000 for it, and I got my $500 a week, but that to me was, you know, considerable. She, by the way, was quite wonderful to me. The only thing was I couldn't get a dressing room. Finally, I really got to this kind of level and I said, "Look, after all, I am the blonde, and it is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes!" Because still they always kept saying, "Remember, you're not a star." I said, "Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!

Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own

You must believe in yourself enough to be the person now that others will remember you for later.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.

Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.

What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Make me remember you like you remember me.

Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.

It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.

Just remember you will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn't last

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members - the last, the least, the littlest.