Outstretches Quotes & Sayings

We may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay. — Robin McKinley

I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it. — Francisco Costa

Whether ... a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place ... depends on one factor: how many brilliant, learned, disciplined, and caring men and women are attracted by the new challenge ... — Erich Fromm

Kat is sitting cross-legged on the floor in her underwear and red T-shirt, leaning in to her laptop. I'm on the lip of the bed above her with my Kindle drawing power from her USB port - um, not a euphemism - reading "The Dragon-Song Chronicles" for the fourth time. — Robin Sloan

She had won them the sun and the moon, but she had become a monster — Rosamund Hodge

It was like so many other things between us, that gift. It was exactly right and totally wrong for me. That — Emily Fridlund

Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand. — Paul Newman

time and timing is a pivot that determines the real value of what we do or what we choose not to do — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers. — Cecile McLorin Salvant

I wish my countrymen to consider, that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual, without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world. — Henry David Thoreau

If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty. — Lao-Tzu

The global financial collapse exposed the longstanding myth that commercial exchange is a primary institution. There are no examples in history where people created commercial markets and exchange before creating a culture. — Jeremy Rifkin

Better to me the poor mans crust,
Better the blessing of the poor,
Though I turn me empty from his door;
That is no true alms which the hand can hold;
He gives nothing but worthless gold
Who gives from a sense of duty;
But he who gives a slender mite,
And gives to that which is out of sight,
That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty
Which runs through all and doth all unite, -
The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms,
The heart outstretches its eager palms,
For a god goes with it and makes it store
To the soul that was starving in darkness before. — James Russell Lowell