Cartwheeling Spider Quotes & Sayings

My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can. — Uzo Aduba

There was such emotion in his eyes now, she felt as though her insides were pressing on her ribcage and twisting in her middle. For years she had thought him a stranger. Now, here, on this road by uncertain light she saw again such acute feeling in the beautiful eyes of the boy she had once adored. She let herself look at his arm so firmly about the little girl, a child he barely knew yet felt the responsibility to protect, and something hard and encrusted inside her shattered. — Katharine Ashe

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to "a war against" whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off. This is puerile, misleading, and degrading. In stories, it evades any solution but violence and offers the reader mere infantile reassurance. All too often the heroes of such fantasies behave exactly as the villains do, acting with mindless violence, but the hero is on the "right" side and therefore will win. Right makes might. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Man would rather be loved for what he has, than be hated for what he lacks. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution. — Charles Spurgeon

Marriage is a mutual friendship. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence. — John Fowles

You are more than entitled not to know what the word 'performative' means. It is a new word and an ugly word, and perhaps it doesnot mean anything very much. But at any rate there is one thing in its favor, it is not a profound word. — J.L. Austin

Be an example of life that you think that everybody should follow. — Debasish Mridha

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master. — Joseph Addison