Linus Christmas Quotes & Sayings

A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable. — Franco Modigliani

We were still looking upon war in the light of Victorian and previous wars," Morton wrote later, adding that he and his brother had failed to appreciate that the "nature and method of war had changed for all time in August 1914 and that no war in the future would exclude anybody, civilians, men, women or children. — Erik Larson

By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean. — Thomas Keating

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us. — Thomas Merton

I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself. — Rei Kawakubo

Love didn't save me; it changed me. Changed me into someone who could save myself. — Sarah Ockler

She had learned never to look back, never to give fate a second chance to kick her in the teeth. — Linda Howard

For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical Bond. His book transformed the chemical flatland of my earlier textbooks into a world of three-dimensional structures. — Max Perutz

Why is it that we want so badly to memorialise ourselves? Even while we're still alive. we wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. we put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls. It's all the same impulse. what do we hope from it? Applause, envy, respect? Or simply attention, of any kind we can get? At the very least we want a witness. we can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio turning down. — Margaret Atwood

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me. — Steve Earle

Embracing doubt is sometimes threatening, as we fear losing our faith if we explore our doubts. Following that thought, if one loses one's faith, then as some religions dictate, that individual cannot enter heaven. Since heaven is the reward of an earthly existence, doubt becomes the enemy of this reward. — David W. Earle

Happiness is more of a necessity than a choice thus we must consider it a priority in everyday's life. — Auliq Ice

When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek. — Edward Norton

If any lesson from war is to be learned, John, it must be always to prepare for the unexpected and face the unthinkable. — Christopher Fowler