Abdullahs Butterfly Story Quotes & Sayings

If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support. — Keith Olbermann

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing. — Philip Guston

Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?. — John Quincy Adams

O prize exceedingly the matchless power and grace which changes deserts into gardens, and makes the barren heart to sing for joy. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom. — Melissa Etheridge

Let us have a Universal Mind
that loves and protects all creation
and helps all things grow and develop
To unify mind and body
and become one with the Universe
is the ultimate purpose of our study. — Koichi Tohei

Clean energy is good for the environment, good for national security, and good for thousands of Americans who desire a rewarding career. — John Garamendi

But jest apart
what virtue canst thou trace
In that broad trim that hides thy sober face?
Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice
And formal clothing, prove a scorn of vice?
Then for thine accent
what in sound can be
So void of grace as dull monotony? — George Crabbe

I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact. — Walter Kirn

What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here! — John Hench

In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The right to take human life belongs to the state. Not so in societies where weak courts and poor law enforcement are combined with intractable structural injustices. — Teju Cole

We all Be happy on Another Way, but when the Happiness Feeling Arrive we are in the Clouds. — Jan Jansen

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. — Anais Nin