Northrop Realty Quotes & Sayings

It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I think 2001 was the year Al Jazeera started to play an international role, in a way. Because in 2001, we were the only TV station located inside Kabul, and every image out of the war in Afghanistan, the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, came through Al Jazeera screen. — Wadah Khanfar

Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. I have done my duty. I have bowed to authority. Mostly. And now, like Russia, I can set aside those burdens for a little while and see what happens. — Orson Scott Card

I call this the Relativistic Weekend Effect. We live in the present, but our happiness relies heavily on the future. Our mood is as much expectation as experience. — Hugh Howey

There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can. — Laurie Colwin

How can you be an artist and not reflect the times? — Nina Simone

Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to do great deeds. They need a faith to live by. The hope of the world lies in those who have such faith and who use the methods of science to make their visions become real. Visions and hope and faith are not part of science. They are beyond the nature that science knows. Of such is the religion that gives meaning to life. — Arthur Compton

Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do. — Robin Marantz Henig