Nozes Pecan Quotes & Sayings

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing. — Margaret Atwood

Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength. — Michel De Montaigne

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

I've always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That's sort of the nature of the business. Even when you're doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you're going to do when that's finished. — Tom Green

There was no guarantee of victory if I remained the same or just tried to be myself, but there was certain defeat in pretending to be something I was not. — J.W. Lord

At least I never voted Republican. -Tony Kushner — Larry Smith

Everything you gather is just one that you can lose. — Robert Hunter

Since he'd stepped out of medical school, all he'd ever done was fulfil the same three basic templates, again and again and again. The possibility of infinite variation had led only to convergence. — Lee S. Hawke

Life is divine Chaos. It's messy, and it's supposed to be that way. — John Keats