Laratrust Quotes & Sayings

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. — Camille Paglia

Tee hee torture! — Lemony Snicket

I feel that I'm in a very interesting position, where I'm standing back to look at this change, at this moment in history of human beings. If the end of the civilization comes before the end of my life, that's lucky! I want to witness how this big story of humans ends. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

We can do anything we want to as long as we give it everything we've got. — Pat Barry

The lake has all sorts of different faces. And so it's always fresh. — Banana Yoshimoto

My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book. — James Salter

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter. — Petrarch

So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later. — Robert B. Laughlin

He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the New Testament. He supposed that the intent of the Gospels was to teach people, among other things, to be merciful, even to the lowest of the low. But the Gospels actually taught this: Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end, the contract is null and void. Increasingly children are raised in a contractual environment. When contractual thinking dominates our horizon, we can even make Jesus or the church an asset we think we can manage. — Michael Horton

I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy. — Alice Temperley

Pel-i-cans, their beaks hold more than their bellies can. — Kelly Corrigan

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I've lit a fire on the mountain opposite yours — Paulo Coelho

When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren't showing you. — Lionel Suggs