Calcuttan Quotes & Sayings

In an ecological perspective, in other words, there are few accidents or anomalies, only outcomes based on system structure and dynamics. Climate change and glittering malls, Calcuttan poverty and sybaritic wealth, biotic impoverishment and economic growth, militarism and terrorism, global domination and utter vulnerability are not different things but manifestations of a single system. — David W. Orr

A city is built to resemble a conscious mind, a network that can calculate, administrate, manufacture. Ruins become the unconscious of a city, it's memory, unknown, darkness, lost lands, and in this truly bring it to life — Rebecca Solnit

There was only one possible answer, as plain as it was disturbing.
That she was not, in fact, human. — Laini Taylor

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice. — Samuel Johnson

When we keep claiming the light, we will find ourselves becoming more and more radiant. — Henri Nouwen

For everyone knows that a girl cannot live on chicken cordon blue alone. — Lindsay Eland

As I have said, the Bible consistently changes the questions we bring to the problem of pain. It rarely, or ambiguously, answers the backward-looking question "Why?" Instead, it raises the very different, forward-looking question, "To what end?"We are not put on earth merely to satisfy our desires, to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.We are here to be changed, to be made more like God in order to prepare us for a lifetime with him. And that process may be served by the mysterious pattern of all creation: pleasure sometimes emerges against a background of pain, evil may be transformed into good, and suffering may produce something of value. — Philip Yancey

Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do. — Gian Carlo Menotti

Everybody hates lawyers, but they don't realize judges are just lawyers with a promotion. Think about it. — Lisa Scottoline

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8. — Andrew Lo

I write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy — Groucho Marx

This world needs more than good works. It needs good news. Good works come out of the good news. — Mark Driscoll

Part of facing the unknown requires dropping an anchor of faith into the depths of God's sovereignty. — James Stuart Bell Jr.

Do not jump into reaction mode at the first appearance of negative energy. Just breathe, and relax. — Neale Donald Walsch

There are some discussions taking place in the United Arab Emirates about the prospects of a long-haul flight into Belfast. — Martin McGuinness