Passifs Gays Quotes & Sayings

GREGORY OF NYSSA. How vain moreover is prayer for those who live by fate; Divine Providence is banished from the world together with piety, and man is made the mere instrument of the sidereal motions. For these they say move to action, not only the bodily members, but the thoughts of the mind. In a word, they who teach this, take away all that is in us, and the very nature of a contingency; which is nothing less than to overturn all things. For where will there be free will? but that which is in us must be free. — Thomas Aquinas

God forgives those who invent what they need. — Lillian Hellman

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith. — Desmond Tutu

There's always time to change your life. — Sherman Alexie

If you act anxiously to hasten your results, you delay their arrival. Calm poise reveals the shortest route home. — Alan Cohen

If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it. — Ambrose Bierce

I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job. — Allison Anders

What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be. — Helene D. Gayle

Nearly losing my life made me want to live my life. — Rahm Emanuel

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules. — Kristin Hersh

The objection to profit is as if a bystander, observing the planter digging his crop, should say: "You put in only one potato and you are taking out a dozen. You must have taken them away from someone else; those extra potatoes cannot be yours by right." If profit is denounced, it must be assumed that running at a loss is admirable. On the contrary, that is what requires justification. Profit is self-justifying. — Isabel Paterson

For the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching ... by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain. — Stephen King

Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

When nothing is at stake, everything's a waste. — Crystal Woods

As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator. — Robert T. Bakker