Kirschenbauer George Quotes & Sayings

Another case for the dumbness of reading, however, is that books do not contain answers, but rather pose more questions. And asking questions makes you look dumber, not smarter.
I thought Alice's Adventures in Wonderland would be a delightful romp through a child's subconscious, but while reading it I started to ask questions like "How do you really speak to other humans when our language often means the opposite of what is intended?" and "How do I really know anyone?" And so on, until I was asking the question "Why even exist at all?"
That didn't make me smarter! That made me wish for death, and being dead looks way dumber than being alive. — Dan Wilbur

You can always put balsamic vinaigrette on salted meat and sort of pretend it's a salad. — Karen Russell

I write poetry to heal pieces of me
time as missed. — Kiana Davis

Our experience shows that security does not lie in weapons or fences or armies. — Oscar Arias

Until then I had rejected him, refused him his own reality. He had been quite right to say that he, the only person on Gethen who trusted him, was the only Gethenian I distrusted. For he was the only one who had entirely accepted me as a human being: who had liked me personally and given met entire personal loyalty: and who therefore had demanded of me an equal degree of recognition, of acceptance. I had not been willing to give it. I had been afraid to give it. I had not wanted to give my trust, my friendship to a man who was a woman, a woman who was a man. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Try and set yourself the task not to think of a white bear, and the cursed thing comes to mind every minute. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment. — William Stanley Jevons

You arrange your life based on what "everyone" thinks of you or what you think they think of you,whoever everyone is ... — Esther Verhoef

If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly. — Bob Filner

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way. — Nikki Giovanni

We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender. — Sarah J. Buckley

There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man. — Anthony Trollope

The Kiril Islands had changed hands more times than a good coin in a whorehouse. — Jaida Jones