American Dervish Quotes & Sayings

Language is a social art. — Willard Van Orman Quine

The situation has gone so far past the point of insanity it's come around and become mundane again. — C.T. Phipps

The dog chewing on your ankle is pleasant compared to the one that used to be chewing on your head."
"Nice metaphor," I noted. — Brandon Sanderson

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all. — Martin Luther King Jr.

It wasn't shared social status or ethnicity that brought Jesus' followers together either, nor was it total agreement on exactly who this Jesus character was - a prophet? The Messiah? The Son of God? No, there is one thing that connected all these dissimilar people together it was a shared sense of need: a hunger, a thirst, a longing. It was the certainty that, when Jesus said He came for the sick, this meant Jesus came for me. — Rachel Held Evans

Ploughing, and clung to their feet with a weight that pulled like desire, lying hard and unresponsive when the crops were to be shorn away. The young corn — D.H. Lawrence

You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you. — Scott Spencer

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages. — Shawn Amos

When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. — J. Edgar Hoover

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. — Thomas Beecham