Familistic Values Quotes & Sayings

Through grace we are helped not to stumble and through grace we know that we are being welcomed. What more can we ask? — M. Scott Peck

I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did. — Alice Cooper

Go where we will, all the world over, we seem to have been there before. — John Muir

The path for those who go with the truth is not is not that smooth. Guns, crosses and hangmen in the gallows are waiting for them! — Kandathil Sebastian

Perhaps we should do the learning - and learn not to communicate, or to do it in a different way. Now there is a thought. Perhaps we could learn your peace if we could share your silence. — Mary Balogh

Part of what impelled him was stubbornness; resentment, even. The system had filed him among the rejects, and what he was studying was considered - at the decision-making levels, the levels of real power - an archaic waste of time. Well then, he would pursue the superfluous as an end in itself. He would be its champion, its defender and preserver. Who was it who'd said that all art was completely useless? Jimmy couldn't recall, but hooray for him, whoever he was. The more obsolete a book was, the more eagerly Jimmy would add it to his inner collection. — Margaret Atwood

Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature. — Ernst Haas

More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation ... I am convinced that these objects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nation on earth. — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding

Our body's evolutionary journey is also far from over. Natural selection didn't stop when farming started but instead has continued and continues to adapt populations to changing diets, germs, and environments. Yet the rate and power of cultural evolution has vastly outpaced the rate and power of natural selection, and the bodies we inherited are still adapted to a significant extent to the various and diverse environmental conditions in which we evolved over millions of years. The end product of all that evolution is that we are big-brained, moderately fat bipeds who reproduce relatively rapidly but take a long time to mature. — Daniel E. Lieberman

Then he paused, and I could tell that whatever he was going to say was really important. There was even a chance he might use more than five words to say it. "Or maybe your magic isn't destructive after all. The rain of Doritos, the bed things, this ... Maybe it's just that you create too big, you know?"
When I could find my voice, I said, "Cal, that might be the nicest thing anyone's said to me since we got here."
He twirled one of the naked roots between his finger and didn't meet my eyes. "It's true." The he glanced up and gazve one of those half smiles I was really starting to like. — Rachel Hawkins

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test. — Susan Sontag

Wallowing in self-pity was only warranted on rainy, dismal days. — Jenni James

I didn't get married to get divorced. — Russell Crowe

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother. — Elizabeth Olsen

It's all just a lot to take in, okay? What if your mom came up to you and said, 'Oh, Cameron, by the way, your father is an elf from Santa's workshop and I'm an alien from outer space, so that makes you - "
"Something really messed up," he cut in. — Mindy Hayes