Klinkenberg Quotes & Sayings

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God? — Ernest Gaines

He hurt you because your strength made him feel weak. No other reason. — Veronica Roth

Whenever I see pointless use of special effects, I reach for something else. — Ken Stott

I love the idea of doing totally different types of guys for different projects. I love that I get to do this. It's so fun. — Ben Schwartz

[Martin Luther King, Jr.] concluded the learned discourse that came to be known as the 'loving your enemies' sermon this way: 'So this morning, as I look into your eyes and into the eyes of all my brothers in Alabama and all over America and over the world, I say to you,'I love you. I would rather die than hate you.'
Go ahead and reread that. That is hands down the most beautiful, strange, impossible, but most of all radical thing a human being can say. And it comes from reading the most beautiful, strange, impossible, but most of all radical civics lesson ever taught, when Jesus of Nazareth went to a hill in Galilee and told his disciples, 'Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. — Sarah Vowell

Mrs Hendred did not like the people around her to be unhappy. Even the sight of a housemaid crying with the pain of the toothache made her feel low, for misery had no place in her comfortable existence; and when it obtruded itself on her notice it dimmed the warm sunshine in which she basked, and quite ruined her belief in a world where everyone was contented, and affluent, and cheerful. — Georgette Heyer

The acronym COAL has been proposed for this attitude of compassionate curiosity: curiosity, openness, acceptance, and love: — Gabor Mate

There isn't anyone who wants to see me married more than I do. — Sheri L. Dew

The universe is so arranged that the power to destroy the climate or the ecosystem of your home planet only comes when you also have the wisdom to know that doing so is a fatal mistake. Therefore, any species that does that is suicidal, and will probably not qualify for any kind of help, from the powers of the universe, with fixing that error. — J.Z. Colby

While 45 percent of the land on earth is used to raise animals and food to feed them, it is estimated that only 5 percent is used to grow plant-based foods consumed directly by humans. This 5 percent, though, supplies 80 percent of the calories consumed by humans.15 — Richard Oppenlander

They hammered it with sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer. — China Mieville

Maniacal suicide. - This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc. — Emile Durkheim