Eugene Kleiner Quotes & Sayings

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told. — Samuel Johnson

And yet. And yet. If asked - if pressed - Honora would have to say she is strangely content. It's an odd feeling that she cannot describe to anyone - not to her mother and certainly not to Sexton, whose unhappiness seems to have no bounds, whose unhappiness is defined now by what he does not have, which is almost everything. He will always, in his mind, be the salesman who no longer has anything to sell. A man who longs for the open road but who cannot ever take it. Whereas Honora, oddly, now has more purpose than she ever did before. She is a dutiful wife who tends to her husband in spite of his weaknesses. She is a woman with ingenuity. She is a woman without illusions. She is a woman who, above all, is too busy trying to make a go of it to fret about her marriage. — Anita Shreve

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation. — Ronnie Milsap

Life is mundane, and does not need a weird explanation. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

As the Navajo and Christian activist Mark Charles explains, when citizens of the thirteen British colonies composed the Declaration of Independence, among their complaints against King George was that he didn't allow them to apply the Doctrine of Discovery to the people of the lands to their west.22 The Declaration described the indigenous peoples as "merciless Indian savages," clearly not counted among the "all men" whom God supposedly "created equal. — Brian D. McLaren

Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course. — Thelma Drake

Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic. — Brett Dennen

Pleasant words are a honeycomb;
Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. (Proverbs 16:24) — Norma Vaughn Danzey

I feel like calling in dead," I told him sourly. "You are looking rather corpse-like. — J.C. Daniels

I love my sacred self. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The net result of the fall on the economic, political, and religious systems is that they become the places where people learn to play god in the lives of the poor and the marginalized. When fallen human beings play god in the lives of others, the results are patterns of domination and oppression that mar the image and potential productivity of the poor while alienating the non-poor from their true identity and vocation as well. — Bryant L. Myers