Liquorice Root Quotes & Sayings

I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think. — Juliette Binoche

If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contrevention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering involves rejecting inappropriate elements. — Mary Douglas

Analogies are lies grown-ups tell. — Brent Weeks

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us. — Thomas Merton

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said. — Virginia Woolf

Blessed are the peacemakers? Billed are the warmongers, and then you shall have peace. — Stefan Molyneux

God's presence in our lives gives us the greatest hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Akroyd!" Sunny cried, a phrase which here means "Roger. — Lemony Snicket

Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit. — Livy

If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure. — Khaled Abou El Fadl

Those wounded in love, unlike those wounded in armed conflicts, are neither victims nor torturers. They chose something that is part of life, and so they must accept both the agony and the ecstasy of that choice. And those who have never been wounded by love will never be able to say: 'I have lived.' Because they haven't. — Paulo Coelho

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash. — Rebecca De Mornay

Pride becomes the blanket transgression that conceals the rest of our sins, allowing us to remain blind to them. — Alisa Hope Wagner

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. — Ursula K. Le Guin