Fred Severud Quotes & Sayings

More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read I am the problem — Donald Miller

The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease. — Charlotte Bronte

Even when you realize that the one before you is an enemy and must be treated sternly, do not hurt with words. — R.K. Narayan

Believing in God and turning into Monsters. — M.F. Moonzajer

You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea what's going on and they don't know anyone's name around them. — Richard Madden

Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved. — Brendan Myers

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself. — Knute Rockne

All things are void. So how possibly could there be any obscurations since everything is void, when you're void itself? There's only the void. In the void, there's only shining, perfect clear light of reality. — Frederick Lenz

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads. — J. Oswald Sanders

The Earthlings did very well on paper. That was part of the rigging, of course. And religion got mixed up in it, too. The news ticker reminded them that the President of the United States had declared National Prayer Week, and that everybody should pray. The Earthlings had had a bad week on the market before that. They had lost a small fortune in olive oil futures. So they gave praying a whirl. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I'll die for stifled love, by all that's true. — Geoffrey Chaucer

For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides turn to jelly. — Joanne Fluke

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. — Vladimir Nabokov

I didn't know what love felt like, but what I felt for her was indescribable with a single word. It was more powerful. It was all consuming. "London, what we are can't be explained with a word, only experienced. — Nashoda Rose