Kingsolver Elementary Quotes & Sayings

I shake hands very gladly politically. I don't think you could be a politician if you didn't shake hands. — Donald Trump

A theological thought can breathe only in the atmosphere of dialogue with God. — Helmut Thielicke

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil? — Glenn Danzig

Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect. — Lundy Bancroft

Never permit failure to become a habit. — William Frederick Book

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome. — Terry Pratchett

Powerful people do not have good listening skills. They hate to listen. They succeed by getting good at faking it ... If you're an extrovert, you think while you're talking. And it's impossible to listen to someone if you are thinking of the next thing you want to say. — Penelope Trunk

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. — Barbara Kingsolver

Be yourself, because really, who else can you be ... ? — James A. Murphy

I do understand that they fall when I'm least able to pay attention because poems fall not from a tree, really, but from the richly pollinated boughs of an ordinary life, buzzing, as lives do, with clamor and glory. They are easy to miss but everywhere: poetry just is, whether we revere it or try to put it in prison. It is elementary grace, communicated from one soul to another. — Barbara Kingsolver

This was a time to prepare for the cold weather, to store up fire and wood. But in those days of the triumph of materialism, matter had become a disembodied idea, and the problems of alimentation and fuel supply took the place of food and firewood. — Boris Pasternak

If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love. — Barbara Kingsolver

I only look forward. I can't get all caught up in what I've done. I still have plenty to accomplish in the game. Hopefully, I'm just scratching the surface. — Alex Rodriguez

Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so. — Harry S. Truman

It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life. — John Eldredge