Bowrd Quotes & Sayings

They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why, and some do not, but they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships, the health of their children, the wisdom of their scholars, the skill of their makers, even the abundance of their harvest and the kindly weathers of their skies, depend wholly on this child's abominable misery. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come. — Andrew Wylie

You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed? — Friedrich Nietzsche

only one Person can live the Christian life, and that is Christ Himself; and only as I
trust Him to live His life in me, can I possibly live the quality of life that satisfies the heart of God and challenges the world in which I witness.19 — Stephen Seamands

I felt something stir within me. It took a moment to recognise it. Anger. — Alison Goodman

When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND. — Zig Ziglar

The arts are life accelerated and concentrated. — Edith Sitwell

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same. — Rem Koolhaas

Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided. — Cynthia Leitich Smith

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter. — Elie Wiesel

To the liberal class, every big economic problem is really an education problem, a failure by the losers to learn the right skills and get the credentials everyone knows you'll need in the society of the future. — Thomas Frank

Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person. — George Orwell

The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition, and to revenge; but when it is guided by the sense of propriety and benevolence, it becomes the parent of every virtue, and, if those virtues are accompanied with equal abilities, a family, a state, or an empire may be indebted for their safety and prosperity to the undaunted courage of a single man. — Edward Gibbon

Only equals make friends, every other relationship is contrived and off balance. — Maya Angelou