Olken Island Quotes & Sayings
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Like a Uniform December 3 WHAT IF ANYTHING have you and I done to do battle against the great darkness of things? As parents and the children of our own parents, as wives and husbands and friends and lovers, as players of whatever parts we have chosen to play in this world, as wielders of whatever kind of power, as possessors of whatever kind of wealth, what other human selves have we sacrificed something of our own sweet selves to help and heal? "Bear fruit that befits repentance!" thunders the Baptist. "Give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness and put upon us the armor of light," whispers the prayer we pray. Bear fruit. Put on light like a garment, like a uniform. That is the place to stop and also the place to start. It is the place to stop and think - think back, think ahead, think deep. It is the place to start and be. — Frederick Buechner
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. — Richard Dawkins
The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital. — Paul Hawken
... I could feel a nostalgia for the evening already setting in, a longing for the existence of this night building before my eyes. — Deirdre Shaw
The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone to be in. — Nathan Fielder
One can't hold one's tongue when one has a feeling, a tangible feeling — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
There are things which are appalling to young people because young people think life should be happy and free. But life is never really happy and free in any beautiful sense. Happiness is a weak and paltry thing and perhaps"freedom" has no meaning. There are great patterns in which we are involved, and destinies which belong to us and which we love even in the moment when they destroy us. — Iris Murdoch
She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor. — Veronica Roth