Launer Voss Quotes & Sayings

A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny island where her main work has been focused, she has brought me many funny and beautiful stories over the years. — Michael Leunig

I love my books. — Elizabeth Edwards

Your life's calling is the answer to someone's prayer. — Shannon Tanner

Where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith? ... — Thomas Malthus

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. — Khaled Hosseini

That by the decrees and volitions, and consequently the providence of God, Scripture (as I will prove by Scriptural examples) means nothing but Nature's order following necessarily from her eternal laws. — Baruch Spinoza

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science. — Heinz R. Pagels

The horrors have made the legend of Mandelstam and are inevitably the lens through which we read his work and life. But if there had been no Stalin and no purge, Mandelstam still would have been a poet of severe emotional and existential extremity. — Christian Wiman

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not. — Jane Austen

Don't discount this powerful use of appreciation. It is one of the great secrets of life. It's the feeling and emotion of appreciation that matters most, not the lip service. — D.S. Luca