Missing My Man In Prison Quotes & Sayings

This basic problem of relevance-cum-subservience has been given an added twist in the modern world, where relevance has become not only hollow but fragile and short-lived. A wider range of choices, a deeper uncertainty of events, a more pressing need for new styles - all this makes for an accelerating turnover of issues, concerns and fads. Nothing tires like a trend or ages faster than a fashion. Today's bold headline is tomorrow's yellowing newsprint. Thus the relevance-hungry liberals achieve relevance, but their victory is Pyrrhic. It is precisely as they win that they lose. As they become relevant to one group or movement, they become irrelevant to another and find themselves rudely dismissed. Far from being in the avant-garde, Christian liberals trot smartly behind the times. Far from being genuinely new or radical, they catch up and announce their discoveries breathlessly, only to see the vanguard disappearing down the road on the trail of a different pursuit. — Os Guinness

I believe that gay people are different, uniquely gifted with the insights and brilliance that stepping outside the heterosexual norm has given us. That is exactly the source of our power. — Amber L. Hollibaugh

I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society. — Dalai Lama

The good man can be proud of his virtue because it is his. But of what is the intelligent man proud? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth. — Ellen Glasgow

Karma runs backwards. You suffer so that the violation becomes unavoidable. Your money is no good here. — Carl-John X. Veraja

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them. — Helen Rowland

But we must not suffer over the suffering. — Alan Watts