Barbara Berger Quotes & Sayings

It occurs to us that so-called "freedom fries" kill many more Americans than terrorists ever do. — Terry Mosher

The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities. — Charles Stanley

I was kind of scared of failing at acting. — James Franco

What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be reconciled with a reductive naturalism, for reasons distinct from those that entail the irreducibility of consciousness. It is not merely the subjectivity of thought but its capacity to transcend subjectivity and to discover what is objectively the case that presents a problem ...
Thought and reasoning are correct or incorrect in virtue of something independent of the thinker's beliefs, and even independent of the community of thinkers to which he belongs. (p. 71) — Thomas Nagel

No one ever lost his job by listening too much. — Calvin Coolidge

The fault-finder will find fault even in paradise. — Henry David Thoreau

He moved neither forward nor backward in time, but merely endured variations of the same day over and over. Maybe he was the one trapped underwater, under a Plexiglas floor, while the world moved on, men and women checking in and out of rooms, lugging overstuffed suitcases, the soles of their shoes passing lightly above him. — Anthony Doerr