Gathertown Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is always asked about Lake Erie: how can we restore it? I believe the only valid answer is that no one knows. For it should be clear that even if overnight all of the pollutants now pouring into Lake Erie were stopped, there would still remain the problem of the accumulated mass of pollutants in the lake bottom. — Barry Commoner

If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss. — Christian Morgenstern

Her finger ran against my cheek. "You're beautiful. You're a beautiful, broken kind of monster."
... "You kissed me earlier."
"I did."
"But why?" she asked.
My fingers moved to the back of her neck, and I slowly pulled her closer to me. "Because you're beautiful. You're a beautiful, broken kind of woman. — Brittainy C. Cherry

This is weird. There's a dead woman in front of me like dozens of other dead women I've seen. But this one is a queen, and a famous one. If it's possible to be starstruck by the dead, then I guess that's what's happening. — Kendare Blake

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. — Lynne Cheney

Nearly 90 per cent of the planet's ice is in Antarctica and most of the rest is in Greenland. — Bill Bryson

Even reading the news feed on the Internet, you can sense which information is credible among all the thousands of propagandist lies. — Andrey Kurkov

The right attitude is this: that I have my own will, yet I will the will of God. — Watchman Nee

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
[1880] — Max Beerbohm

The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can. — Seneca The Younger

I couldn't even see that woman because I have blinders on when you are around, and every single thought in my head is about you. — Carolyn Brown

Much of Christmas' beauty is in its sameness. The same traditions. The same meals. The same songs. The same story. Yet each Christmas is a little different. — Calvin Miller