Aleksy Romanow Quotes & Sayings

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going. — N. T. Wright

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual. — Matthea Harvey

Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course. — Donella Meadows

Inside the room there sat a rocker, which she sat on, and which had rocked her while she sipped the beer, because in spite of herself she had become so giddy to have so quickly relieved her heart that she allowed herself to lean backwards while in the rocker, which had made it possible for the rocker to rock her, although it was not her intention to be so rocked. Also there stood an ironing board with a still hot iron on it that was burning a yellow shift, and there was, among several items that were not as noticeable to the woman, and yet were noticeable enough to at least bear mention, a fake man.
"I hope you don't mind me asking," said the woman who lived in the room, but then while in her chair she nodded off. — Justin Dobbs

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it. — Barbara W. Tuchman

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius. — Jasper Carrott

And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization is simply a question of relative strength. — Frantz Fanon

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease. — Laura Ziskin

Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover. — Robert A. Heinlein