Mansbridge Why We Lost Quotes & Sayings

...lace is formed from the absence of substance; it is imagined in the spaces between the threads. Lace is a thing like hope. It lived, it survived, and it was desired for what it was not. If faith, as the nuns said, was the substance of things hoped for, then lace was the outline - the suggestion - of things not seen. — Iris Anthony

Spend your knowledge to buy wisdom. — Debasish Mridha

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing? — Hill Harper

He's the President - it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted. — Glenn Greenwald

Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara's answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only sane, but as respectable as any human activity can be. — Caleb Carr

There's a place for everything and everyone, you know. That is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people have a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will clog and clot, and rot and fester. — Lauren Oliver

When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible — Deepak Chopra

We should die relying on grace alone — Martin Luther

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything. — Jack Kuehler

No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination. — Anne Sullivan

Hope is the fuel within all human souls.
Eliminate hope - nothing moves, nothing grows. — Richelle E. Goodrich

When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions become necessary, when they aren't camp, that, to me, is magic. I've done musical comedies and enjoyed them, but subject matter that's deeper and more realistic is always what's appealed to me most. — Kelli O'Hara

The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them. — Richard Wagner

You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results. — Emanuel Lasker

There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. — Rainer Maria Rilke