Cambrin Explosion Quotes & Sayings

Books inviting us to read, on the bookshelves stand.
Piers for bridges that will lead, into Fairyland — Rainer Maria Rilke

The new Turkish identity, which I call Muslim nationalism, is that of a pious Muslim Turk whose subjectivity and vision for the future is shaped by an imperial Ottoman past overlaid onto a republican state framework, but divorced from the Kemalist state project. — Jenny White

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking. — Buddy Guy

If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading. — Boris Becker

Perhaps I'm tired of waiting for something I may never find. — Maya Banks

The system of white supremacy is intended to make folks of color doubt themselves, their intelligence, their abilities, their very sanity. And so it's important to remember that folks of color know their own realities. — Tim Wise

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some idle, faddish wish on my part. — Chang-rae Lee

I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a bad connection, intent, hopeful, innocent, never quite good enough. — Kirk Wilson

True love propels a person to great feats all without so much as a word. — Joel T. McGrath

We must be able to look under the surface rather than over-analyze it and delude ourselves into thinking we're seeing beneath it. — Brianna Wiest

Global conditions that prevail at the time of decision. Global conditions
provide constraints and opportunities for international decision making and
color the degree to which both an actor's internal attributes and individual
leader preferences can account for the choices made.
n Internal, or domestic, characteristics of the transnational actor. The internal
characteristics - such as wealth, military might, and public opinion - of the
transnational actor making the decision heavily shape the range of choices open
to the individual decision maker.
n Characteristics of individuals who are the decision-making leaders. The
individual values, personalities, beliefs, intelligence, and prior experiences of
the leaders of transnational actors are important as well because they predispose
them to take certain kinds of positions on global issues.
This — Charles W. Kegley Jr.

Make the mule of your tongue serve the mercy of your heart. — John Piper

Gandalf looked at him. My dear Bilbo! he said. Something is the matter with you! You are not the hobbit that you were. — J.R.R. Tolkien

No need to get a rumor heading through town that would end up like one of the salmon on the conveyor belt down at the cannery, the head and tail of the story cut off and the middle butchered up until it became something unrecognizable. — Sere Prince Halverson