Amersham Vale Quotes & Sayings

An entomologist is not a bug. — Kenneth Rexroth

The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule. — Giorgio Agamben

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose. — Ashley Judd

Do not yield. Do not flinch. Stand up. Stand up with our President and fight. We're Americans. We're Americans, and we'll never surrender. They will. — John McCain

Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again. — Mary Lambert

But they shared in common a belief that the earth is a spiritual presence that must be honored, not mastered. — Kent Nerburn

I eyed her and shrugged my shoulders, wondering how on earth she thought this meal was good, but her wafer-thin body gave her away; not once in her life had she eaten good-tasting food. — Gwyn Hyman Rubio

The librarians know the secrets, not the historians — Dee Brown

It is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it's wondrous, don't you think, that a person can swing from despair to gleeful hunger, and that even during these dark days there is happiness to be found in the smallest things? — Kate Morton

Life is fullest when we are most true to ourselves. — Gay Hendricks

And to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it — Charles Dickens

Algiz literally means 'the roots, branch', and it also means 'to cut'. Its link to ancient Egyptian 'Ka' is unmistakable. The origins of Santa Claus are found there long before the 'family tree' tradition got transmitted into Babylon. Even on the circular zodiac of Dendera, there is a cut leg piece of a bull alongside a crab running parallel to the Christmas Axis. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well. — Mary Roach

The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from having one's pride humiliated. — Rose Philippine Duchesne

Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion. — Fernando Pessoa