Parker Palmer Let Your Life Speak Quotes & Sayings

For ten thousand dollars, I'd endorse an opium pipe. — Fanny Brice

Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present. — Elena Ferrante

If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices out of his virtues, and there's a spectacle. We've all seen them: men who were monsters of philanthropy and women who were dragons of purity ... No, no - nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modesly around it. — Thornton Wilder

Constantine's expression was heartbreaking - the countenance of a person who had been betrayed all over again. — Anne Zoelle

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer. — William Hull

Rightly understood, a myth is an effort to tell truths that cannot be told with mere facts or known by the senses and the mind alone, truths that take form only in that integrative place called the heart. — Parker J. Palmer

I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God. — Owen Wister

I can't solve his problems, and it's not my fault that he thinks I should. — Lundy Bancroft

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes. — Jonathan Swift

It's so fun to be in love or so I've heard, the meaning has no feeling even though I understand the word — Eyedea

I have what I call A-list moments, but believe me, I'm still on the D-list. — Kathy Griffin

The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world. These are people who have come to understand that no punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment, by living a divided life, by failing to make that fundamental decision to act and speak on the outside in ways consonant with what we know to be true on the inside. — Parker J. Palmer

Why hang out with celebrities when I can hang out with the people who made me one? — Barack Obama

Suddenly it was too hard to be in his presence, too painful to know that he would belong to someone else. — Julia Quinn

Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores. — Barack Obama

Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour all the inarticulate perceptions, all the knowings and unknowings she felt, which, though he couldn't understand them really, he would receive reverently, and out of him would come then the advice, the warnings, the clever decisions she could never have made. — John Crowley