Benediction Religious Quotes & Sayings

At bottom he did not believe the people wanted reform; they wanted a ten percent raise in wages. The public mind was a thing too big, too complicated and inert for a vision or an ideal to get at and move deeply. — Sherwood Anderson

I find myself wanting to study his lower abdomen, where the muscles are like stepping stones leading the way down to Mr. Happy. — Kristen Callihan

The Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo makes a similar point to Rorty: "We don't reach agreement when we have discovered the truth," he observes; "we say we have discovered the truth when we reach agreement. — Stephen Batchelor

I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn't have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list. — Rick Riordan

Niagara made a careful gesture, like some religious benediction: a diagonal slice across his chest and a stab to the heart. 'A slash and a dot,' he said. 'I doubt it means anything to you, but this was once the mark of an alliance of progressive thinkers linked together by one of the very first computer networks. The Federation of Polities can trace its existence right back to that fragile collective, in the early decades of the Void Century. It's less a stigma than a mark of community. — Alastair Reynolds

Churchill had a black dog. I have singledom,' she says, exhaling theatrically. 'I will die alone. — Gemma Burgess

Everybody wants to be perfect. — Isaiah Thomas