Beewulf Quotes & Sayings

The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age. — Paul Weller

It was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her husband, her father, norher brother. This remarkable relaxation of American decorum has been probably introduced by the foreign legations. — Frances Trollope

This book is about entanglements. To be entangled is not simply to be intertwined with another, as in the joining of separate entities, but to lack an independent, self-contained existence. Existence is not an individual affair. Individuals do not preexist their interactions; rather, individuals emerge through and as pare of their entangled intra-relating . Which is not to say that emergence happens once and for all, as an event or as a process that takes place according to some external measure of space and of time, but rather that time and space, like matter and meaning, come into existence, are iteratively recon figured through each intra-action, there by making it impossible to differentiate in any absolute sense between creation and renewal, beginning and returning, continuity and discontinuity, here and there, past and future. — Karen Barad

Many a man has a treasure in his hoard that he knows not the worth of. (Sellic Spell) — J.R.R. Tolkien

Before you can speak the truth with your lips you must know truth in your heart.
Psalm 15:2 — Deborah Brodie

It never stops to amaze me how God sends the right people at the right stage of your life as a confirmation to let you know that you're not crazy. — Assegid Habtewold

The joys of possession I have never felt very acutely. I find it hard to think of myself as the owner of anything. But I do tend to slip into the role of guardian and protector of the unloved and unlovable, of what other people disdain or spurn: bad-tempered old dogs, ugly pieces of furniture that have stubbornly stayed alive, cars on the edge of breakdown. It is a role I resist; but every now and then the mute appeal of the unwanted overwhelms my defences. — J.M. Coetzee

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering. — Joy Harjo

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. — Malcolm X

To do that, you need to take "conversational risks." You need to reveal who you are and what you're about. This might turn some people off. You might make a few bad impressions. — Charlie Houpert

Because human nature never changes. — Orson Scott Card

REAL fellowship is being as committed to each other as we are to Jesus Christ. — Rick Warren

Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering ... since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky