Fairstein Op Ed Quotes & Sayings

If you are unhappy, you are too high up in your mind. — Carl Jung

Our hearts know what is in them, even if our mouths remain silent. And the world will know what it is, even when nothing remains in our hearts. — Paul Auster

Valerik spit to one side. "We laugh at religion's brand of love, forms and rules that keep the poor feeding from the church's coffers. It is in deed."
"I agree. That kind of love is porcelain-coated balls of dung.
But what of true affection? ... — Ted Dekker

Then, because glass slippers would have been a bitch to run in, I laced on a pair of boots, and went down to Ariel's room. — Kat Howard

When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support. — Scotty McCreery

If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long. — Roger Ebert

Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished. — H.L. Mencken

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house. — Ellen Hopkins

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. — Robert Delaunay

Or a saint who had spent all his years preparing for his grand entry into heaven, only to discover on his deathbed that heaven was not some blue expanse full of angelic string quartets and opalescent clouds, but an eternity granted for reliving one's happiest moments, and that he had none to remember; — Olga Grushin

Michael John's music is soul-stirring. It gets inside the deepest part of you; it's almost a chemical reaction. — Kate Baldwin

There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings. — Jeremy Taylor

As a kid, all I thought about was death. — Maurice Sendak

We are living in a world that is beyond controllability. — Ulrich Beck