Clashes Au Quotes & Sayings

Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions — Muhammad Ali

I don't mind being called a "feminist," as I certainly embrace the tenets of feminism, though it does feel a little sad to me that we need to call a novel "feminist" simply because the female characters are interesting and strong. — Laurie Foos

Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to. — Picabo Street

What is it that you contain?
The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars? — Jeanette Winterson

There will be no yelling at people who are bleeding themselves to unconsciousness. — Kristin Cashore

When you get up in the morning, let your first thought be directed towards God. — Mata Amritanandamayi

He hooks a thumb in one of his belt loops and says, "How are you, Beatrice?" "Did you just call me Beatrice?" "Thought I would give it a try." He smiles. "Not good?" "Maybe on special occasions only. Initiation days, Choosing Days ... — Veronica Roth

On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized. — Ken Salazar

If more people had the courage to discover their potential, we might find that such talents are not so rare — Jeffrey Overstreet

You can't ever really replace Jon Anderson because he's been such a force in the music business. — Chris Squire

Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross. — Vance Havner

He leaned down and whispered, "I love you," in Honoria's ear.
Just because he wanted to.
She didn't look up, but she smiled.
And he smiled, too — Julia Quinn

How we ask our questions affects the answers we arrive at. Light appears as a wave if you ask it "a wavelike question" and it appears as a particle if you ask it "a particle-like question." This is a template for understanding how contradictory explanations of reality can simultaneously be true.
And it's not so much true, as our cultural debates presume, that science and religion reach contradictory answers to the same particular questions of human life. Far more often, they simply ask different kinds of questions altogether, probing and illuminating in ways neither could alone. — Krista Tippett