Oshannon Quotes & Sayings

If we apply our minds directly and competently to the needs of the earth, then we will have begun to make fundamental and necessary changes in our minds. We will begin to understand and to mistrust and to change our wasteful economy, which markets not just the produce of the earth, but also the earth's ability to produce. We will see that beauty and utility are alike dependent upon the health of the world. But we will also see through the fads and the fashions of protest. We will see that war and oppression and pollution are not separate issues, but are aspects of the same issue. Amid the outcries for the liberation of this group or that, we will know that no person is free except in the freedom of other persons, and that man's only real freedom is to know and faithfully occupy his place - a much humbler place than we have been taught to think - in the order of creation.
(pg.89, "Think Little") — Wendell Berry

Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation. — Mahatma Gandhi

Your face is my heart, Sassenach," he said softly, "and love of you is my soul. But you're right; ye canna be my conscience. — Diana Gabaldon

This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization. — John Tukey

People tell me an Olympic medal is a life-changing event. Except I don't even think about the medal unless someone asks about it. — Mikaela Shiffrin

Wherefore, we search the prophets, and we have many revelations and the spirit of prophecy; and having all these witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken, insomuch that we truly can command in the name of Jesus and the very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Jump to another weird sick disappointment just coming over the horizon. — Chuck Palahniuk

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? — Kahlil Gibran

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. — John Steinbeck

If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated. — Susanne Bier

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. — Abraham Lincoln

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. — Henry David Thoreau

Then I'll just tell you that it doesn't matter whose fault it is. Blame is just a way to keep score, and adults don't play games like that. — Tommy Wallach

People say Seattle is one of the toughest cities in which to make friends. They even have a name for it, the 'Seattle freeze'. — Maria Semple