Elhanan Pennington Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. — George Santayana

Furthermore, any teaching that puts the spotlight of attention on the workings of the ego will necessarily provoke egoic reaction, resistance, and attack. — Eckhart Tolle

The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child. — Frederick Lenz

Totalizing and dangerous views of "American culture" and "nationhood" can be found in current attempts to portray "Christian values" or particular constructions of "family values" as constitutive of "American culture" and "the American way of life." Views of "American culture" that picture American society as comprised of "free individuals," and of American institutions as already fair and egalitarian, obscure the ways in which various forms of institutional discrimination impede the entry and flourishing of members of marginalized groups. — Uma Narayan

The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase. — Kristin Hannah

According to any textbook on dynamic meteorology, one may reasonably conclude that in a warmer world, extratropical storminess and weather variability will actually decrease. — Richard Lindzen

We drank coffee. We talked. She loved Charles Dickens, whom she read in Norwegian. Years after she was dead, I wrote a dissertation on Dickens, and though my study of the great man would no doubt have alarmed her, I had a funny feeling that by taking on the English novelist I was returning to my Norwegian roots. — Siri Hustvedt

There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you young fellows, than to know how to behave yourselves prudently towards those whom you do not like. Your passions are warm, and your heads are light; you hate all those who oppose your views, either of ambition or love; and a rival, in either, is almost a synonymous term for any enemy. — Lord Chesterfield

Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our deeper feelings are sacralized, so as to become raw material for the ethical life: the life lived in judgement. — Roger Scruton

Water really does great things for my skin. — Jackee Harry

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it. — Mark Twain

Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries. — Sean MacBride

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others. — Rob Thurman

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. — Alan Bennett