Avoteca Quotes & Sayings

This invasion of one's mind by ready-made phrases (lay the foundations, achieve a radical transformation) can only be prevented if one is constantly on guard against then, and every such phrase anesthetizes a portion of one's brain. — George Orwell

I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds ... — Uwem Akpan

But I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding. — Charles Bukowski

Whoever desires, for his writings or himself, what none can reasonably contemn, the favour of mankind, must add grace to strength, and make his thoughts agreeable as well as useful. Many complain of neglect who never tried to attract regard. — Samuel Johnson

To long for total spiritual well-being is right and natural, but to believe that one is anywhere near it is to be utterly self-deceived. — J.I. Packer

You, my friend, could be the smoke's daughter,
you who may not have known you were born of fire and rage,
lightning over flaming lava etched your violet mouth,
your sex in the scorched oak's moss like a ring in a nest,
your fingers there in the flames, your compact body
rose from leaves of fire that make me recall
there were bakers in your family tree,
you're still the rainforest's bread, ash from violent wheat, — Pablo Neruda

We can't move quickly. You move quick out here and you die quick. — Cody Lundin

For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year. — John Boyle O'Reilly

Gall 3rst had this idea as a young boy when he
noticed that those of his classmates who excelled at
memorizing school assignments had prominent eyes. — KANDEL

The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things ... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads. — Shelby Foote

Liberals talk about the 'income inequality' and the 'unfairness' and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City. Who has been running that city for all this time? Who has created the underclass in this country? It's the Democrat Party. — Rush Limbaugh

I prefer being a small fish in a big pond. — Stacy Keibler

God is a spirit.
The spirit dwells in a body. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We do not merely absorb experience; we filter and select it. — Jerome L. Singer

The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God. — A.B. Simpson