Codebooks For Research Quotes & Sayings

Christians are now wide open to Asian religions, ready, in the words of Vatican II, to "acknowledge, preserve and promote the spiritual and moral goods" found among them. — Thomas Merton

For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems. — Kate DiCamillo

We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation. — Dan Savage

Avoid people who say they know the answer. Keep the company of people who are trying to understand the question. — Billy Connolly

A grateful journal, joyful soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Orphanage 127, Sector D, sub-district 28, Zone 7, the city of Plexus, Continental Center, Earth, 3,914 years after the End of the Age of the Uzgen. — Damian Wampler

The words of the rose to the rose floated up in his mind: "No gardener has died, comma, within rosaceous memory." He sang a little song, he drank his bottle of stout, he dashed away a tear, he made himself comfortable.
So it goes in the world. — Samuel Beckett

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation. — Colin Powell

It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate. — Dorothy Parker

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you. — Roger Federer

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. — Paul Bourget

I do question everything. But I want to have my questions. I want to have more thoughts than my mind can hold, so many that I have to write them in fragments like a madman. — Lauren DeStefano