Movement Items Quotes & Sayings

... did it make a difference if the remark never got back to the person about whom it was made? She thought not. The harm is done when the words are uttered: that is the act of belittlement, the act of diminishing the other, and it is that act which would cause pain to the victim. You said that about me? The wrong was located in the making of the cruel remark, rather than in the pain it might later cause. — Alexander McCall Smith

I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont.
Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything.
She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again. — Cormac McCarthy

All the labours of ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinciton in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins. — Bertrand Russell

We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded. — Calamity Jane

I see Christianity in very humanistic terms. — John Shelby Spong

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us. — Joel Osteen

Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over. — Roger Harrison

I can't get sucked into that celebrity thing, because I think it's just crass. — Alexander McQueen

Sometimes life is like that ... Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings. — Richard Paul Evans

Samuel Marshak was one of the founders of modern Russian children's literature. Soviet children used to know his poems by heart, but only since glasnost have American editors shown any interest in issuing his poems here. — Michael Patrick Hearn

she takes me so seriously, much too seriously, and then thinks about her queer little sister for a long time afterwards, looks searchingly at me, at every word I say, and keeps on thinking: 'Is this just a joke or does she really mean it? — Francine Prose

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little. — Jackie French Koller