Corita Song Quotes & Sayings

One, two, three / Buckle my shoe. — Robert Benchley

The conventional word that is employed to describe tyranny is "systematic." The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not. (The only rule of thumb was: whatever is not compulsory is forbidden.) Thus, the ruled can always be found to be in the wrong. — Christopher Hitchens

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life. — Elizabeth Berg

But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed. — Aristotle.

Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. — Marcus Aurelius

Ah, well. You can't fix stupid. And you can't heal crazy. — Thea Harrison

Even monkeys recognize each other — Jennifer Niven

I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you feel safe. — Lionel Shriver

Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us. — Mary Baker Eddy

Violence is the power of the state; imagination and non-violence the power of civil society. — Rebecca Solnit

I say God is kind. So many people want to do what I do [comedy] for a living, and so he didn't have to choose me. So I don't take all the credit, but I do know that I love what I do, and I see it as a gift. — Niecy Nash