Jonas Society In The Giver Quotes & Sayings

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. — Ambrose Bierce

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other. — John Updike

I have great memories. — Eric Cantona

Whatever anybody believes as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else, it's fair enough, and works, and I think, is real, and matters. I don't happen to have those beliefs, as much, you know, I don't believe in those things. — George Clooney

Satisfactory spiritual life will begin with a complete change in relation between God and the sinner; not a judicial change merely, but a conscious and experienced change affecting the sinner's whole nature. The atonement in Jesus' blood makes such a change judicially possible and the working of the Holy Spirit makes it emotionally satisfying. — A.W. Tozer

It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument. — D.A. Wallach

We do not belong to ourselves alone, she wanted to say, but there was no one to speak to. — Amanda Coplin

Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward. — Bridget Asher

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them. — Robert Schumann

Throw a champion into the ocean, and he'll swim.
Throw a champion into the pit, and he'll climb.
Throw him off a cliff, and he'll grow wings.
Throw him into a furnace, and he'll become gold. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at every turn, to our powers of wishful thinking? Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe. The methodology isn't perfect, and the history of science is riddled with abject failures of scientific objectivity. But that is just the point-these have been failures of science, discovered and corrected by-what, religion? No, by good science. — Sam Harris

It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events. — Winston Churchill