Quotes & Sayings About Offred's Mother In The Handmaid's Tale

Often the most effective statement we can make in a noisy world is to say nothing at all. Don't waste your words over something or to someone who deserves silence. — Chris Vonada

So all my friends have kids now ... which I think is rude. — David Cross

If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just. — Timothy Keller

Mentalism is the art of exploring and revealing hidden connections. — Jay Sankey

Life is hard and then we die! — Barbara Johnson

Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor. — Pam Brown

I don't mean to in any way impugn the makers of Bentley, but that car is nuts. When I do drive, I drive a Toyota Prius. So driving around the streets of Albuquerque in a Bentley made me feel so fake-a-rooney. — Jessica Hecht

On the night before Jesus died, he said to his Heavenly Father, "I have accomplished the work which you gave me to do."
He didn't heal every sick person on earth. When he ascended to heaven, there was still sickness and heartache and pain. But Jesus knew that he had accomplished what his father had called him to do, and that was enough. — Lisa Brenninkmeyer

In my experience nursing is waiting. The mother becomes the background against which the baby lives, becomes time. I used to exist against the continuity of time. Then I became the baby's continuity, a background of ongoing time for him to live against. I was the warmth and milk that was always there for him, the agent of comfort that was always there for him.

My body, my life, became the landscape of my son's life. I am no longer merely a thing living in the world; I am a world. — Sarah Manguso

With the wise man, what he has does not cease to be enjoyable because some one else has something else. Envy, in fact, is one form of vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations — Bertrand Russell

A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love. — Leonard Cohen

We can't say whether Tehran is supporting Al Qaeda, but we do know that al-Qaida people come here from Pakistan through Iran. — Zalmay Khalilzad

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president. — Al Sharpton

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason. — Benjamin Moser