Keegan Russ Quotes & Sayings

Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that. — Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Persecution is one of the natural consequences of living the Christian life. It is to the Christian what "growing pains" are to the growing child. No pain, no development. No suffering, no glory. No struggle, no victory. No persecution, no reward! — Billy Graham

Lately, I have been wondering if there is time left for daydreaming in this 21st-century world of constant communication. — James Thurber

And Unseen University took tradition very seriously, at least when it remembered to. — Terry Pratchett

I can't sit through the superhero films. But I watched Draft Day, and it was kind of sweet in an old-fashioned way. — William Friedkin

Dangerous Helpfulness. There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than afterwards to offer them their prescriptions for making life easier
their Christianity, for example. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Four people wheel out a huge wedding cake from a side room. Most of the guests back up, making way for this rarity, this dazzling creation with blue-green, white-tipped icing waves swimming with fish and sailboats, seals and sea flowers. But I push my way through the crowd to confirm what I knew at first sight. As surely as the embroidery stitches in Annie's gown were done by Cinna's hand, the frosted flowers on the cake were done by Peeta's. — Suzanne Collins

Sometimes I wonder, Balram. I wonder what's the point of living. I really wonder ... '
The point of living? My heart pounded The point of your living is that if you die, who's going to pay me three and a half thousand rupees a month? — Aravind Adiga

I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry. — Richard Wilbur

Everyone's got a version of the same story, or maybe there's no such thing as the same story; it's a different story every time. — Karen Tei Yamashita

Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket. — Leonardo Donofrio

If I were Satan and wanted to destroy a society, I think I would stage a full blown blitz on its women. I would keep them so distraught and distracted that they would never find the calming strength and serenity for which their sex has always been known. He has effectively done that, catching us in the crunch of trying to be superhuman instead of realistically striving to reach our indiviual purpose and unique God-given potential within such diversity. He tauntingly teases us that if we don't have it all- fame, fortune, families, and fun- and have it every minute all the time, we have been short changed; we are second class citizens in the race of life. You'd have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to get these messages in today's world, and as a sex we are struggling, and our society struggles. Drugs, teenage pregnancies, divorce, family violence, and suicide are some of the every-increasing side effecs of our collective life in the express lane. — Patricia T. Holland

I'm Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse. — Ryan Gosling