Beardless Wheat Quotes & Sayings

When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Today we can only hear the voices and witness the imaginations of one-third of the world's people. We are all being robbed of the creativity and potential of the two-thirds of the world not yet online. Tomorrow, if we succeed, the Internet will truly represent everyone. — Mark Zuckerberg

The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me. — Andrew Bird

We can learn even from our enemies. — Ovid

That is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it. — Francis Schaeffer

Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love. — Charles Stanley

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. — William Graham Sumner

I am wholly committed to playing one role; "me". The thing is, that sometimes leaves me too exhausted to play anyone else. — Ollie Quain

I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically. — Ralph Stanley

I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength. — Woody Harrelson

And if I were to open you up - would you see anything less remarkable? Less intricately dazzling, in its squelching, spongy way? Lungs and heart and spleen, and all the rest - ticking away, as it were? Yet you walk down the boulevard, and pass any number of such wonderful devices, all ticking away as they walk, and think it no great marvel. — K.W. Jeter

All you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts. — Wallace D. Wattles

The times when you want to cry are when you have to try your hardest. That's why I decided I'll cry in general. Then, when I have to shed tears for a time when I really want to cry, my tears would have run dry — Jacuzzi Splot - Baccano

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me. — Kwame Nkrumah