Farmakeia Quotes & Sayings

We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which ... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of God. Significant is Saint Benedict's reminder to the Abbot of a monastery, inviting him to consult even the youngest members of the community: "By the Lord's inspiration, it is often a younger person who knows what is best". — Pope John Paul II

...Is Wonderland really a wonder...when you have nowhere to land? — Raven Gregory

I have only one life story to tell, but Gerda must have several, for although by and large I know her past and know enough people who have known her from a child, when she talks about herself there are an infinite number of deviations, indeed not even deviations, because there is no line from which she could deviate, there are simply a large number of versions and interpretations of her life. When she is in a good mood and becomes talkative, she no sooner thinks of a detail than her life story takes a different turn. — Ingeborg Bachmann

I look at Thich Nhat Hanh and I look at Marshall Rosenberg, and they're more concerned about the long range. And that long range means that you have to sit down with people who don't think like you. I want to reach people who don't think like me. — Sandra Cisneros

My priority is to hang out with the ones I love - my family, my loved ones. — Cote De Pablo

Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change. — Jean Ziegler

The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States. — Ronald Reagan

I am a huge fan of using social media to connect with people because I think there was this 'ivory tower' aspect of journalism where people might read a byline for years but have no idea about the person who was behind it and never get to communicate with them or ask them a question. — Sarah Lacy

The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone? — Ian McGuire

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything. — James Webb Young

Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light. — Haruki Murakami

Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back. — Washington Allston