Improvidence Lyon Quotes & Sayings

It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just stuck, and they can't get it out because there's too much greed. There's too much obsession with reputation and addiction to narrow conceptions of success. — Cornel West

My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head. — Donald Byrd

A home is very, very important to me. But I do change things around a lot. — Gloria Vanderbilt

The most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur. — John Dewey

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that. — Antony Beevor

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Why should going into a firefight, charging into an enemy station filled with people and automatic systems built to kill you, seem less frightening than talking to people who you shipped with for weeks? — James S.A. Corey

It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem. — Luc De Clapiers

Man passes through the present with his eyes blindfolded. He is permitted merely to sense and guess at what he is actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can he glance at the past and find out what he has experienced and what meaning it has had. — Milan Kundera

Eating dinner with conservation biologists was like walking through a minefield of ethical decisions: grasslands have been overgrazed by steer raised for beef, and all cattle emit greenhouse gases though enteric fermentation; the poop from industrially raised chickens poisons the Chesapeake; the Amazon has been slashed and burned for soy
and don't even mention seafood. To this bunch of herpetologists, the sin of ordering shrimp lay in the bycatch
young fish, and especially sea turtles, caught in the nets and discarded, dead or dying. — Joe Roman

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart. — Arundhati Roy

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do, or what you have done, but simply because you are — Max Lucado

Now I know why the Lord took his day off on Sunday. That must be the day he personally greets his favorites. — Jason F. Wright

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand. — George Foreman

Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw. — Carol Ann Duffy