Reservations Quotes

• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Trust, Faith, Believe

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• Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

  Andrew Jackson

  Believe, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

  George Carlin

  Fun, Sleep, Years

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, even if filled with indecision, skepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere.

  Arthur Miller

  Forever, Doubt, Life Is

  "The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller".

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• The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

  George MacDonald

  Health, Exercise, Appreciate

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• In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.

  Rick Renzi

  Country, Years, Law

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• How do we remember people when they don’t make reservations?

  Stephanie Izard

  People, Remember

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• When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.

  Russell Simmons

  Giving, World, Magnet

  FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Sep 21, 2015

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• I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.

  Chaske Spencer

  Mother, Father, Taken

  "Chaske Spencer, Actor (Twilight)". Interview with Gabriel Canada, www.racebending.com. October 31, 2010.

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• Attention is the intention to live without reservation in the here-and-now.

  Timothy Miller

  Attention, Intention, Here And Now

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• In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, United States, Illegal

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, www.guernicamag.com. ugust 15, 2011.

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• Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation -- teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Art, Teaching, Land

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• See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to hold the reservation and that's really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Important, Know How, Knows

  "Customer Service Suffers on Black Friday". "Day to Day" with Madeleine Brand, www.npr.org. November 23, 2007.

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• People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

  David Mamet

  People, Silent, Ask Me

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• It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Essence, Phenomenology, Certainty

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Thomas Baldwin (2004). “Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings”, p.195, Psychology Press

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• For a moment in time, a man knew me for who I was and, without reservation, loved me for who I was. How can I now live knowing no one will ever see me again in such a perfect light? Hear me as I wish to be heard? Love me as [he] loved me?

  Robin Maxwell

  Men, Light, Knowing

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• The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Rights, Practice, Justice

  The Federalist Papers, No. 78 ("The Judiciary Department"), www.congress.gov. May 28, 1788.

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• According to the three missed calls from her mother—who thought Madison had been kidnapped in the big, bad city and was now being held for an ungodly sum of money—the four text messages from her brother wondering if she knew how to navigate the beltway—because apparently little sisters couldn’t drive—and the voice mail from her father warning there was a problem with the reservations, she was late for brunch.

  J. Lynn

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• To have memories, happy or sorrowful, is a blessing, for it shows we have lived our lives without reservation.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Memories, Blessing, Sorrowful

  Tan Twan Eng (2009). “The Gift of Rain”, p.69, Weinstein Books

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• Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation.

  William Herbert Sheldon

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  William Herbert Sheldon (1936). “Psychology and the Promethean Will: A Constructive Study of the Acute Common Problem of Education, Medicine and Religion”

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• With some reservation, it can be said that certain democratic elements are present in Georgia as well; but it is very clear that the government has to pronounce its explicit wish to resign before something is going to happen. On the western front, only Belarus is an exception.

  Garry Kasparov

  Government, Wish, Elements

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Skepsis. I am a true skeptic, born under the noble sign of skepsis, the sign of the man who knows that all astrology is absolutely and without reservation the bullest of bullsh*t that ever there was. It is a senseless delusion that does not even have the benefit of being harmless fun. It is a harmful bore. Harmful to the human spirit, harmful to the dignity and wonder of the real universe and the real power of the mind to think for itself. I hate astrology with a fervor that is almost frightening. - Stephen Fry (when asked what sign he would be if he could create his own zodiac)

  Stephen Fry

  Fun, Real, Hate

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• "Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to my reverence for the rights of life, to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity, or to my faith in Wakan Tanka, God of the Lakotas.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Honesty, Rights, Civilization

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.258, U of Nebraska Press

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• Having that North Star for every story [about Batman] is really key for me. It allows me to go farther and farther off the reservation.

  Scott Snyder

  Stars, Keys, Stories

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• There is a wine called Easy Days and Mellow Nights, well-known on the outskirts of the Navajo reservation. It is an economical wine, fortified with the best of intentions, and I recommend it to every serious wino.

  Edward Abbey

  Wine, Night, Serious

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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