Everstone Quotes & Sayings

When I travel around the world, I see that poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms. And we feed it to livestock. So we can eat a steak? Am I the only one who sees this as a crime? Every morsel of meat we eat is slapping the tear-stained face of a starving child. When I look into her eyes, should I be silent? The Earth can produce enough for everyone's need. But not enough for everyone's greed. — Philip Wollen

The white man hated to hear anything about spirits because spirits were already dead and could not be tortured and butchered or shot, the only way the white man knew how to deal with the world. Spirits were immune to the white man's threat ... s and to his bribes of money and food. The white man only knew one way to control himself or others and that was with brute force. — Leslie Marmon Silko

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning. — Ian Williams

I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it. — Mitch Kapor

If you chase after everything at once, you stand a good chance of ending up empty-handed. — Tadahiko Nagao

But the thing about having kids is: you can't go to pieces; you just have to keep going. — Helen Fielding

Most of these who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. — Chris Hedges

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not ... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting. — John Gutmann

Oh my dear now did you hear of clumsy Captain Cotton? He sailed a knot in Haley's Loch before hit the bottom! — Christina Daley

Put 'em on and be yourself, mister alienated loner steppenwolf bemused distant meta-izing technocrat rationalist fucking shithead. — Neal Stephenson

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident. — Maeve Binchy

I think I get used to, even addicted to, the feelings associated with the end of a long training run. I love feeling empty, clean, worn out, starving, and sweat-purged. I love the good ache of muscles that have done me proud. I love the way a cold beer tastes later that afternoon. I love the way my body feels light and sinewy. — Kristin Armstrong

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward. — J.J. Abrams

That's all we can do. Live in the moment. Love in the moment. — Heidi Heilig