Ignatian Solidarity Network Quotes & Sayings

You can hardly do anything that won't seem stupid later. — Karl Lehenbauer

There's the issue of hunger, and there's an issue of if you're going to cut out food programs. We should be focusing on healthy food. Right now, fruits and vegetables are very expensive. So what can we do on the policy side to bring the cost of fruits and vegetables down? — Tom Colicchio

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away. — William Barclay

Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties. — Christopher Hitchens

So what you're left with is: either Christ was who He said He was - the Messiah - or a complete nutcase. I mean, we're talking nutcase on the level of Charles Manson. - Bono on whether Jesus was Son of God was far-fetched. — Bono

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about. — Terence McKenna

The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny. — Abraham Verghese

It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being — Sergei Eisenstein

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill

When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold. — Julio Iglesias

I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work. — Ted Danson

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things. — Anthony Kiedis

People like to have something to turn down, though. They want to be able to say no to some things, because it makes their yes more meaningful. (pg. 25) — Deb Caletti