Margriet Christina Quotes & Sayings

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it. — John Nelson Darby

The sugar planter counted on an average of ten to fifteen years' work from a slave before he was driven to death, to be replaced by another fresh off the boat. Along with malnutrition, bugs and diseases could also eventually do in someone working up to eighteen hours a day. The brutality of the American Cotton Kingdom a century later could not compare to that of Saint-Domingue in the 1700s. There would be no shortage of cruel overseers in the United States, but North American slavery was not based on a business model of systematically working slaves to death in order to replace them with newly bought captives. The French sugar plantations were a charnel house. — Tom Reiss

Laughter is by definition healthy. — Doris Lessing

I didn't want to pretend anymore. Didn't want to keep pretending she was dead when she'd been the only person who'd ever made me feel alive. Didn't want to keep pretending she meant nothing when she meant everything. — A.L. Jackson

Poor nation mostly generate poor people — Anwar Ali

The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly. — Charles Reznikoff

I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future. — Alexander Downer

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off. — Samuel Richardson

The memory is a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets. — Taylor Mali

Life is a series of choices that we make, some of them are good, and some of them are not, but everything always works out in the end. — Micalea Smeltzer

Let the morning keep what belongs to the morning, — Marie Rutkoski

The more we retreat from the culture at large the more room we will have to carve out lives of meaning, the more we will be able to wall off the flood of illusions disseminated by mass culture and the more we will retain sanity in an insane world. — Chris Hedges