Kaffir Boy Setting Quotes & Sayings

It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut. — Pico Iyer

What normally felt like the only possible world became one among many — Ben Lerner

The contraption was necessary because my lungs sucked at being lungs. — John Green

Perhaps we do not yet know what the word "to love" means. There are within us lives in which we love unconsciously. To love thus means more than to have pity, to make inner sacrifices, to be anxious to help and give happiness; it is a thing that lies a thousand fathoms deeper, where our softest, swiftest, strongest words cannot reach it. At moments we might believe it to be a recollection, furtive but excessively keen, of great primitive unity. There is in this love a force that nothing can resist. — Maurice Maeterlinck

Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible. — Jean Piaget

I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business. — Portia Doubleday

The shame of emotion overpowered them; they cursed a little, to prove they were good rough fellows; and in a mellow silence, Babbitt whistling while Paul hummed, they paddled back to the hotel. — Sinclair Lewis

The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter. — Jimmy Carter

Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant that it could not become the source of great events. — Giordano Bruno

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. — David Ives

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine — Fay Weldon

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. — Mark Twain

Golfers find it a very trying matter to turn at the waist, more particularly if they have a lot of waist to turn — Harry Vardon

A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth of thought? — Mason Cooley