Islwyn Wales Quotes & Sayings

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of. — Marina Abramovic

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community. — Michael Pollan

When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little this lack disrupted my conscious life. I lived not without God, nor wish his absence, but in a mild abeyance of belief, drifting through the days on a tide of tiny vanities - a publication, a flirtation, a strong case made for some weak nihilism - nights all adagios and alcohol as my mind tore luxuriously into itself. I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-live at once protected me from and subjected me to. Was the fall into belief or into unbelief? Both. For if grace woke me to God's presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe. — Christian Wiman

You're my could've been, should've been but never was and never will. — Unknown

With that I turned into a punching, struggling, kicking psycho redneck zombie bitch. — Diana Rowland

Whatever does not exist in the body can't be found in the universe, and whatever exists in the universe can be found in the body. — Mahatma Gandhi

Something's getting in the way something's just about to break, I will try to find a place in the Diary of Jane, as I burn another page as I look the other way, I still try ti find my place in the Diary of Jane, so tell me how it should be — Breaking Benjamin

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models. — Freeman Dyson

Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience. — Albert Schweitzer

You really find out who your friends are and who you can trust. That definitely toughens you. — Jane March

In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts which partake of perfection, he, himself can never be perfect. — T. E. Hulme

Everyone gets caught accidentally sneaking weird stuff through security sometimes though. — Jenny Lawson

Sure, some news is bigger news than other news. War is bigger news than a girl having mixed feelings about the way some guy fucked her and didn't call. But I don't believe in a finite economy of empathy; I happen to think that paying attention yields as much as it taxes. — Leslie Jamison