Dawnsign Quotes & Sayings

I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all. — Mary Fisher

If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition of interest groups. If citizens do not exercise the powers confered by their legitimacy, others will do so.
(I - The Great Leap Backwards) — John Ralston Saul

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended. — Edward Abbey

A spectre is haunting Western academia ( ... ), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. — Slavoj Zizek

Ignifex knew me. And loved me And he had never asked me for anything. Even Shade wanted me to die for him. — Rosamund Hodge

Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow. — Gautama Buddha

But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace. — Anne Michaels