Ahwaz Map Quotes & Sayings

There have been many genocidal attempts, without and within, to destroy and/or misrepresent the histories, futures, languages, and traditional thoughts of Native peoples. But traditions, unlike doctrines, can persist and evolve at the same time. This anthology is a response to modern-day Native people becoming more and more disgruntled with spurious representations. Each writer has built a bridge between what has been "presented wrongly" and what needs to be "expressed accurately. — MariJo Moore

Then, as if they were wind-blown clouds, all of the ideas in which we've felt life and all the ambitions and plans on which we've based our hopes for the future tear apart and scatter like ashes of fog, tatters of what wasn't nor could ever be. And behind this disastrous rout, the black and implacable solitude of the desolate starry sky appears. — Fernando Pessoa

Katherine feels that she must have learned something about marriage from being married before that is now working to her benefit. However, she doesn't know quite what it is, or how, actually, it works. — Joy Williams

How do you know you're even here right now? Perhaps you're not. Perhaps you're far, far away and this is just a dream. — Frederick Lenz

The problem is not in being sinners, the problem is when we don't let ourselves be transformed in love by the encounter with Christ. — Pope Francis

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them. — Richard Dawson

I have spent most of my life most happily making plans for others to carry out. — William Beveridge

What do you think about when you close your eyes?" she asked. Alex looked at her, her silky orange eyes catching light from the fire, her hair falling against her cheek, her lips soft and full. "You really want to know?" She nodded. "Yeah." "I think about you, — Lisa McMann

The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation. I grapple with this because I'm a parent. And I think anybody who has children, you come to this realization, you know - what'll it be? Alienated, cynical intellectual? Or slack-jawed, half-wit consumer of the horseshit being handed down from on high? There is not much choice in there, you see. And we all want our children to be well adjusted; unfortunately, there's nothing to be well adjusted to! — Terence McKenna

You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me. — Dito Montiel

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity. — Ellen Glasgow

Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for Him to act. Don't worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes. — Susan May Warren

If this was the rice that God was putting in my basket...there was no point wishing for soup. — Chinelo Okparanta

The car as we know it is on the way out. — J.G. Ballard