Anielle Webster Quotes & Sayings

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual. — Michel De Certeau

Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves. — Elisabeth Elliot

The Bible is like a bull fiddle, you can play almost any tune you want on it. — Tommy Douglas

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story. — Sandra Brown

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does. — Gene Wolfe

We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience. — Roger Brooke Taney

One can paint with two colors, and draw with one. Three, or four at most, have for centuries been enough men. — Henri Michaux

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder. — Ritchie Blackmore

The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life. — Patch Adams

There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and an acute inquiry into the big subjects: love, family, other animals, the nature of creativity. It is sublime. It's also very funny. Haunting and haunted, Hold Still is the memoir of an artist that is art itself. — Melissa Holbrook Pierson

War, they say, is the answer of those who have no arguments left. — Andrew Ashling

A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks, questions, doubts, investigates, probes, and while it is true that, out of a long habit of resignation, he sooner or later ends up looking as if he has submitted to the objects, don't go thinking that this apparent submission is necessarily permanent. — Jose Saramago