Haecceities Quotes & Sayings

For what angry God arching backward over the world. his anus spitting fire, the fetid breath of his mouth propelling blood-colored clouds, his navel full of burnt pitch and singed feathers, have we given our eyes, our teeth, our eyeglasses, bales of our our hair, and the magic of our worthless gold? — Erica Jong

We are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for granted, misused. After all, isn't poetry a form of prophecy, and aren't prophets known for their talent for flourishing in inhospitable deserts and other bleak surroundings? Maybe. But maybe not indefinitely. — Jan Clausen

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. — Arthur Erickson

In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen. — John Marshall

Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger- our ability to act as an economic mechanism to distribute the gains of our work and raise all workers' wages and benefits up is disappearing. — Andy Stern

The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action. — J.P. Moreland

There are infinite of these subtle trifles, and others more subtle than these, of notions, relations, instants, formalities, quiddities, haecceities, which no one can perceive without a Lynceus whose eyes could look through a stone wall and discover those things through the thickest darkness that never were. — Erasmus

Prayer changes things, but it ultimately changes the one who prays. — Suzanne Eller

Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on your work, and it's enlightening sometimes to know that non-writers and readers out there have certain assumptions about everything that I both want to keep in mind and want to forget about why I write, and about the connection between me as a private person and the stuff that I think about on the page. — Chang-rae Lee

The ego does not want to be wrong, ever. — Iyanla Vanzant

I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being. — Logan Lerman

Fish and visitors stink after three days. — Ursula K. Le Guin

What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense? — Russ Feingold

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project. — Philip Yancey

The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about "social justice" all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get reelected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice. — Thomas Sowell

The thing for you is a burial permit. You have only to speak and I will see that you get it. — Dale Carnegie