Berkman Elementary Quotes & Sayings

I concede to my atheist opponents that belief or unbelief is a choice. As a choice, it is based upon desire. I desire, and therefore choose to believe in, one kind of universe, one that has laws and purpose with justice woven into its very fabric. The unbeliever desires, and therefore chooses to believe in, a chaotic universe where the dead remain dead and actions have no effect beyond their immediately observable consequences. — Peter Hitchens

I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black. — Ellie Goulding

The journeythe journey, I promise you, is the greatest thing ever. The destination always takes care of itself. — Ray Lewis

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. — George Carlin

Beauty misleads without lying, like an ambiguous prophecy in a Greek play. We read into it our hopes, to which it is indifferent. We ask it to be true and good, but it has its own way of measuring worth, its own standard and authority. — Phillip Margulies

Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change. — Frederick Lenz

This time I am a force.
A deviation of human nature.
I am living, breathing proof that nature is officially screwed, afraid of what it's done, what it's become.
And I'm stronger. I'm angrier.
I'm ready to do something I'll definitely regret and this time I don't care. I'm done being nice. I'm done being nervous. I'm not afraid of anything anymore.
Mass chaos is in my future.
And I'm leaving my gloves behind. — Tahereh Mafi

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius.
"Third time's tradition," finished Erik. — Alethea Kontis

Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it — Mary Schmich

I'd spent time with all those girls trying to find someone who outshone you, who I thought I could want more, and I failed. I felt hopeless. — Kiera Cass