Berfield Erin Quotes & Sayings

My brother Felix used to say that my knives would never be as sharp as my tongue, which was a shame. — Rae Carson

Our liberal political and judicial systems are founded on the belief that every individual has a sacred inner nature, indivisible and immutable, which gives meaning to the world, and which is the source of all ethical and political authority. — Yuval Noah Harari

There's one relationship in your life - in everyone's life - that has been kept a secret. You don't know when it began, and yet you depend upon it for everything. If this relationship ever ended, the world would disappear in a puff of smoke. This is your relationship to reality. A — Deepak Chopra

The goal is not to run a program called "Missional Community." The goal is to learn how to function as an extended family on mission. — Mike Breen

Perhaps it is more generally true that in order to learn from tradition, one has to be able to push against it, and not be bowed by a surfeit of reverence. The point isn't to replicate the conclusions of tradition [ ... ], but rather to enter into the same problems as the ancients and make them one's own. That is how a tradition remains alive. — Matthew B. Crawford

On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery
so much life, so much to live for
yet somehow, I'm certain he would have loved to see the frightening rubble and the swelling of the sky on the night he passed away. He'd have cried and turned and smiled if only he could have seen the book thief on her hands and knees, next to his decimated body. He'd have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty, bomb-hit lips.
Yes, I know it.
In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it all right.
You see?
Even death has a heart. — Markus Zusak

To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been. — Les Brown

Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow. — Terry Pratchett

Brilliant thoughts flow with a life of their own to a dedicated reasoning predator up in a tree with a bow and arrow half the year meditating soulfully in anticipation to kill unsuspecting meat-infested herbivores. — Ted Nugent

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods. — William Shakespeare

He put an arm around his brother to help him up. And then, for a moment, he just held on. — L.J.Smith

Of course, Sol is a big ball of hot gas, but one that - thanks to its endlessly boiling innards - shakes and vibrates. By studying patterns on the Sun's surface, astronomers can learn much about Sol's internal construction. — Seth Shostak