Parravicini Prophecies Quotes & Sayings

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure. — Adrienne Rich

When you're at the beginning, don't obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there. — Chip Heath

Our feet thump on the ground, and we can no longer smell even a trace of the fishes' bodies that once bumped up against the shore because they're decayed now, gone to bone, the smell of them lost in the scent of our living, our flesh, the salt of our tears and sweat, the sharpness of green grass and plants trampled underfoot. We're breathing the same air, singing the same song. — Ally Condie

Now don't you give me any of that talk about becoming overly protective and fussy in my old age. I have every right to show a little concern now and then. — Jaye L. Knight

Acting is acting, but acting is different in almost always every project, and very, very different in this context. — Helen Mirren

I've made peace with insecurity ... because there is no security of any kind. — Dick Van Dyke

Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us. — Philip James Bailey

Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale? ... A gang is a group of men ... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy ... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom. — Saint Augustine

Those who get into the business of truth are seldom satisfied. For truth is organic and destined for change. — Keela Sanders

Every path is the right path. Everything could've been anything else. And it would have just as much meaning. — Mr. Nobody

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. — Lois McMaster Bujold