Obrajii Quotes & Sayings

At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting — Annie Dillard

Always this man gives me strength. — Naoko Takeuchi

Alternative spaces, independent media, satellite, these all provide some tools by which we can work more independently and deal more directly with communities we hope to reach. Distribution is key, and finding alternative ways to do that with new media is critical. — Chuck D

This film Phantom takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat. — Stephanie Zacharek

If the basic human nature was aggressive, we would have been born with animal claws & huge teeth
but ours are very short, very pretty, very weak! That means we are not well equipped to be aggressive beings. Even the size of our mouth is very small. So I think the basic nature of human beings should be gentle. — Dalai Lama

I was invited to visit a friend who was very sick ... When I came to him, he said to me, "Henri, here I am lying in this bed, and I don't even know how to think about being sick. My whole way of thinking about myself is in terms of action, in terms of doing things for people. My life is valuable because I've been able to do many things for many people. And suddenly, here I am, passive, and I can't do anything anymore."
As we talked I realized that he and many others were constantly thinking, "How much can I still do?" Somehow this man had learned to think about himself as a man who was worth only what he was doing. And so when he got sick, his hope seemed to rest on the idea that he might get better and return to what he had been doing. If the spirit of this man was dependent on how much he would still be able to do, what did I have to say to him? — Henri J.M. Nouwen

For the first time perhaps ever, I am not denying the truth of all of my cracks. I am living them. — Lisa Renee Jones

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing. — Anne Desclos

If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed? — Arthur Curley

If you have no interest in actually committing yourself to an actual group of gospel-believing, Bible-teaching Christians, you might question whether you belong to the body of Christ at all! — Mark Dever