Clifford Unger Quotes & Sayings

Museums are the anthropological screened porches of suburbia. You can be near something great, but not actually personally experience it. — S. Kelley Harrell

Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to Paradise.
(reported by Ibn Majah and others, fulfilling the conditions of Imam al Bukhari and Imam Muslim) — Anonymous

In the end, even the stars withered and died. — Robert Gryn

If there was one silver lining to this whole mess, it was the reminder of my family's greatness. I had a lovely visit with my mother that — Piper Kerman

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free. — Edith Wharton

Knowing that you love me is not a source of amusement." Sebastian realized that his hands were shaking with the force of the emotion that was pouring through him. "It is my salvation — Amanda Quick

You can sleep now, you said. You can sleep now. You said that.
I had a dream where you said that. Thanks for saying that.
You weren't supposed to. — Richard Siken

If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you'll only have to throw away the first three pages. — William Campbell Gault

I do not like war, because war happens in the countryside, and the countryside bores me. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Focusing on individual nutrients, their identities, their contents in food, their tissue concentrations, and their biological mechanisms, is like using math and physics to catch balls. It's not the way nature evolved, and it makes proper nutrition far more difficult than it needs to be. Our bodies use countless mechanisms, strategically placed throughout our digestion, absorption, and transport and metabolic pathways, to effortlessly ensure tissue concentrations consistent with good health - no database consultation required. But as long as we let reductionism guide our research and our understanding of nutrition, good health will remain unattainable. — T. Colin Campbell

The mind serves to know the truth that fuels the fires of the heart. — John Piper

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. — Wallace Stevens