Jbanda Quotes & Sayings

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries. — Denise Mina

In a situation where flesh is consumed, vegetarians inevitably call attention to themselves. They have made something absent on their plates; perhaps a verbal demurral has been required as well. They then are drawn into a discussion regarding their vegetarianism. Frequently, there will be someone present who actually feels hostile to vegetarianism and regards it as a personal challenge. If this is the case, all sorts of outrageous issues are thrown out to see how the vegetarian will handle them. The vegetarian, enthusiastic reformer, sees the opportunity as one of education; but it is not. instead it is a teasing game of manipulation. At times, ludicrous questions are raised; they imply that the entire discussion is ludicrous. — Carol J. Adams

Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination. — Ian Leslie

These things that were between us, these and a myriad others, a myriad myriad, these remain of her, but what will become of them when I am gone, I who am their repository and sole preserver? — John Banville

The grand point is not to wear the garb, nor use the brogue of religion, but to process the life of God within, and feel and think as Jesus would have done because of that inner life. Small is the value of extended religion, unless it is the outcome of a life within. — C.S. Lewis

I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way. — Imelda May

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow. — Jane Hirshfield

I'm pretty much a documents reporter. I'm a public records geek. — Bill Dedman

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself. — Rick Yancey

I was never a person who was introduced to junk food. — Ellen Pompeo

Wherever I travel I'm too late. The orgy has moved elsewhere, — Mordecai Richler