Olivia Sutherland Quotes & Sayings

To you." He kissed her mouth, then nipped her lower lip lightly. "With you, for you. In you. — Karen Rose

She lay there thinking, on the rich, wet graveyard grass, before the tomb of some random parishioner - Beloved Son, Husband, Father - and what she thought was this: she'd been right about almost everything. She'd gotten nearly full marks. A minus again. Blew only one question.

Here's the one thing I got wrong, she thought. I thought that they could never wear me down. — Lev Grossman

I have no athletic skills whatsoever. I'm just literally incompetent. — James Gray

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time. — Soren Kierkegaard

It takes a brave man to be truly mad. — Atticus

It's inevitable that three drunk friends with unresolved sexual tension will play truth or dare. — Leah Raeder

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work. — John Taylor Gatto

Cultural relativism has used this deceit to gain power. The absolute relativists want to assert their sincere desire for dialogue UNTIL they become a majority. Then they often want to settle issues by either exclusion or coercion. They first argue for democratic fairness, but when they acquire their majority, they are tempted to turn immediately to a triumphalism that assumes that liberal justice has triumphed. From then on, dialogue about truth is forbidden, and about absolute truth is absolutely forbidden. — Thomas C. Oden

Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though. — Seth Godin

Almost every man we meet requires some civility,
requires to be humored; he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion orphilanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As Plato: It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth. — Rebecca Goldstein

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed. — Josh Gad

Peace appeals to the hearts; studies to the brain. Both are needed, indeed indispensable. But equally indispensable is a valid link between brain and heart. And that, in a nutshell, is what peace studies and peace practice are all about. — Johan Galtung