Grievable Lives Quotes & Sayings

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action
no matter what the action is
might help you feel better. — A. J. Jacobs

An oddly paired duo, Pete, a computer "junkie" and — Margaret Pearce

The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. — William Shakespeare

The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease. — Betty Friedan

Was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth is past but old age has not yet come. — Ivan Turgenev

To the extent that we are trapped by the overvaluing, idealizing tendency, we are not free fully to celebrate the limited but real goods of creation. Idolatry by definition is not an accurate assessment of creaturely goods, but an overvaluing of them so as to miss the richness of their actual, limited values. If I worship my tennis trophies, my Mondrian, my family tree, my Kawasaki, or my bank account, then I do not really receive those goods for what they actually are - limited, historical, and finite - goods which are vulnerable to being taken away by time and death. When I pretend that a value is something more than it is, ironically I value it less appropriately than it deserves. Biblical psychology invites us to relate ourselves absolutely to the absolute and relatively to the relative. — Thomas C. Oden

Until we learn that other lives are equally grievable and have an equal demand on us to be grieved - especially the ones that we've helped to eliminate - I'm not sure we'll really be on the way to overcoming the problem of dehumanization. — Judith Butler

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear. — Sting

Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring. — Zora Neale Hurston

Well," Skulduggery said, "purely to get this out of the way, I'll just go ahead and say it. There does not seem to be any sign of a railway track on the carpet or, indeed, a train hiding behind the sofa. And I don't think one could have fitted through the door. — Derek Landy

There is never a second opportunity to make a first impression. — Andrzej Sapkowski

When you do your best, people notice. — Oprah Winfrey

He balanced in space with the book in his sweating cold fingers. — Ray Bradbury

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? — Randy Pausch

When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start making decisions you start cutting off all of the other possibilities of things that could happen. So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. So when I get maybe 2/3's of the way through I can see very clearly where it is going to go. — Steven Zaillian