Annunciated Quotes & Sayings

The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale. — Dana Gioia

Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards? And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles, The making of perfect soldiers. — Walt Whitman

Accessing a "professional listener" such as a psychologist or counselor can be useful if the loved one wants to use this form of support. — Timothy Carey

I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren't hurting anyone. Insofar as the time they are taking time off from work is being spent with friends and family, enjoying and caring for those they love, they're probably improving the world more than we acknowledge. — David Graeber

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking. — Casey Stengel

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. — Francis Quarles

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter. — Robert Scheer

The loss of my child broke my spirit. — Asa Don Brown

I should understand the land, not as a commodity, an inert fact to be taken for granted, but as an ultimate value, enduring and alive, useful and beautiful and mysterious and formidable and comforting, beneficent and terribly demanding, worthy of the best of man's attention and care ... [My father] insisted that I learn to do the hand labor that the land required, knowing
and saying again and again
that the ability to do such work is the source of a confidence and an independence of character that can come no other way, not by money, not by education. — Wendell Berry

In short, forbidden fear is merely concerned with self-preservation. It does not take God's glory into account. On the contrary, it actually desires the removal of what it perceives as dangerous, meaning it desires the removal of God. — John Flavel

Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition. — Charlotte Bronte

In each moment may you see clearly, rest deeply, love sweetly, and live from the truth of your being. — Indigo Ocean

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting. — Mahatma Gandhi

Rather than freedom from traditional constraints, then, girls were free to "choose" them. Yet, the line between "get to" and "have to" blurs awfully fast. — Peggy Orenstein

The weak-minded choose to hate," she said. "It's the least painful thing to do, isn't it? — Yiyun Li