Inkwells Corvallis Quotes & Sayings

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community. — Anatol Rapoport

And Jesus, in response, created for Himself a sort of daily compassion (not empathy, of which He seemed to have little, at least to Amos), but a cobbled-together will-to-patience that was born not of His divinity, but of His humility. Amos said he'd imagined Jesus so many times repeating under His breath, "Don't smite them, don't smite them, they're really just a bunch of morons and are in enough trouble already," repeating it as He healed the hemorrhaging woman, the blind man, the soldier, people He did not love but took mercy upon anyway. — Haven Kimmel

All the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game. — Ernest Cline

What I wanted was to put as much distance between you and that blinding fear as possible. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it. — Amy Sherman-Palladino

As a nation we should look more carefully at how our fear of future acts of terrorism is undermining our quality of life. — Bruce H. Lipton

When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair. — David McCullough

I had to figure out if I was happier being with a live woman or living with the memories of a dead one. — Rebecca Forster

Yeah, it's true. I've got a boyfriend. Outside of the octagon, outside of this business, he's my world. Nobody even comes close. — Maris Black

I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any faith we have pinned to their worth. — Vachel Lindsay