Explicolandia Quotes & Sayings

I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself — P.C. Cast

There was no stopping us now. We had running water, a heater, a cooker and a road. We were fast becoming slaves again to all the things we had come to this benighted spot to flee. — Chris Stewart

I wasn't doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn't one of those people. — Rob Roberge

I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours! — Dolly Parton

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood. — Tim Heidecker

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none — Seneca The Younger

They want a race war. We must be peaceful people. They are gonna poke and poke and poke, and our government is going to stand by and let them do it. We must be - we must take the role of Martin Luther King, because I do not believe that Martin Luther King believed in, Kill all white babies. — Glenn Beck

Tracker Marks was of a different opinion. Though he seemed more white than a white man, he had no time for their ways. For him his dress, his deportment was no different than staying downwind in the shadows of trees when hunting, blending into the world of those he hunted, rather than standing out from it. Once he had excelled at the emu dance & the kangaroo dance; then his talent led him to the whitefella dance, only now no-one was left of his tribe to stand around the fire & laugh & praise his talent for observation & stealthy imitation.
The whites have no law, he told Capois Death, no dreaming. Their way of life made no sense whatsoever. Still, he did not hate them or despise them. They were stupid beyond belief, but they had a power, & somehow their stupidity & their power were, in Tracker Marks's mind, inextricably connected. But how? he asked Capois Death. How can power & ignorance sleep together? Questions to which Capois Death had no answer. — Richard Flanagan

Can you see your own death?" "Everyone sees it," Persephone said mildly. "Most people make themselves stop looking, though." "I don't see my own death," Adam said. But even as he said it, he felt the corner of knowledge bite into him. It was now, it was coming, it had already happened. Somewhere, someWHEN, he was dying. — Maggie Stiefvater

It takes a thousand voices to tell a story — Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kimberger

We don't actually know if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a written copy of Thomas because we don't know exactly when it was written. — Elaine Pagels