Banamanah Quotes & Sayings

He assured me that God didn't make cancer because cancer is not good, and he cautioned me not to blame God for something He didn't make. — Ron Hall

She was still developing her sundial theory of art, which would count no hours but the sunny ones. — Wallace Stegner

But, for myself, the Earth's records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization. — Edgar Allan Poe

Might it be that the Transition approach, of creating vibrant local economies with increased community ownership, meeting practical needs from as nearby as possible, and living well while consuming far less energy than we do today, could actually better meet our needs? — Rob Hopkins

Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where Islam is concerned. There, the standards are established under threat of violence, and accepted out of a mix of self-preservation and self-loathing. This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that "bravely" trashes its own values and traditions, and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force. — Ross Douthat

The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

When you've been close to someone it's hard when they start acting that way towards you. — One Direction

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists. — Rebecca West

I used to work at UPS I got fired for unloading packages into my car. — Felipe Esparza

As small as a world as large as alone. — E. E. Cummings

Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides — Christopher Flavin

Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for. — Reynolds Price

You know, most good playwrights write seven good plays and then something happens and after that they're crap. — Sarah Kane