Meredith Narrating Quotes & Sayings

They broke the way a man dismantling a mine broke the second his geography exploded. — Michael Ondaatje

For maybe the first time in my life, I had tried to do the safe thing, and it had blown up in my face. Never, ever again. — Rick Bragg

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr. — Henry Suso

Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed. — Francis Bacon

Putting yourself in the place of others ... is what thinking ethically is all about. — Peter Singer

I read books to read myself. — Sven Birkerts

There will soon be no more priests ... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest. — Walt Whitman

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things. — Elbert Hubbard

The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward it then becomes simple: to approach with an uncalculating mind, with an attitude of regard ... be alert for its openings, for that moment when something sacred reveals itself within the mundane, and you know the land knows you are there. — Barry Lopez

And then the Charynite last borns were lifting Quintana on their shoulders and the Lumaterans had Froi on theirs, and she was laughing and he thought he'd never seen her look so beautiful. And over everyone's heads, Froi could see Gargarin and Arjuro staring up at her with their bittersweet smiles, and Froi imagined two boys with the same face all those years ago in a filthy cave beneath the swamps of Abroi, praying for a better life. — Melina Marchetta

When you are angry, don't react. Respond with consideration, kindness, and love. — Debasish Mridha

It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent ... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation. — Robert Hugh Benson

God is willing to answer when we ask: ' Ask and it will be given to you; seek you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks received, and who seeke finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened(Matthew7:7-8, NKJV). — Euginia Herlihy