Nbbonline Quotes & Sayings

FROM ITS VERY INCEPTION, The Farm was established as a "spiritual community" and registered with the state of Tennessee as The Farm Church. Stephen taught and the community recognized that intentional communities founded on spiritual principles were much more likely to survive beyond a few years, and there was history to back up that belief. Over the last 200 years of intentional communities in America, those based on political or social economic ideals had a life span of around 10 years, while those founded on spiritual principles typically endured 25 years or more. The spiritual awakening experienced by the hippie generation is what made The Farm happen, and why it exists today. Community is so much more than the buildings and the roads and the trees. It takes spiritual connection to endure. — Douglas Stevenson

Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the trees. — Louis L'Amour

We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it. — John William McCormack

To draw you must close your eyes and sing. — Jandy Nelson

I was so grateful that Lemony Snicket wasn't the worst movie ever made that I overlooked many things that might have otherwise upset me. — Daniel Handler

I'm not a lovable man. — Richard M. Nixon

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights. — Francois De Malherbe

I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment. — Leo Tolstoy

My book Abraham and Obama will open up your mind even when your eyes are closed — Jerry Zerg

If he walked, he discovered, he did not have to think, and that was just the way he liked it; when he thought, his mind went to places he could not control, places that made him feel uncomfortable. Exhaustion was the best thing. — Neil Gaiman

If this is where you ask me to run around in my birthday suit, I'm not entirely comfortable with that, I said, smirking. — Laura Kreitzer