John Kinsella Peripheral Light Quotes & Sayings

With a cold barren weariness that quenched the dry glow of anger, he thought, What can you do about these people? The terrible thing is, there are such a lot of them. There are so many, they expect to meet each other wherever they go.
Not wicked, he thought: that's not the word, that's sentimentality. These are just runts. Souls with congenitally short necks and receding brows. They don't sin in the sight of heaven and feel despair: they only throw away lighted cigarettes on Exmoor, and go on holiday leaving the cat to starve, and drive on after accidents without stopping. A wicked man nowadays can set millions of them in motion, and when he's gone howling mad from looking at his own face, they'll be marching still with their mouths open and their hands hanging by their knees, on and on and on. ... — Mary Renault

When I first started painting, I had an interesting nightmare about Cleveland - I dreamed the houses there were encased in this free-floating cage structure. I guess Cleveland was a confining place for me, even though my parents weren't too conservative. — April Gornik

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with. — Yolanda Adams

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants. — Benjamin Banneker

A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand. — Linda Howard

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives. — Joyce Carol Oates

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action. — Marilyn Butler

The principle is timeless: If Christ is not Lord over our money and possessions, he is not our Lord. — Randy Alcorn

David Pimentel, a Cornell University professor of ecology and agriculture analyzed a 22-year organic versus conventional farming trial done at the Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania. He concluded that organic farming produced the same yields of corn and soybeans as conventional farming, but used 30 percent less energy (Pimentel 2005). Scientists at the Research Institute — Pamela C. Ronald