Pastoralia Quotes & Sayings

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before. — Margaret Spellings

I thought this would be the end of your antics. There are three hundred guests sitting in the church and suddenly you believe you can fly? — Yvonne Harriott

Just remember, the language of gesture is more effective than the spoken word. Body language is very powerful. Bring the balance within you and project that balance. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels. — Zooey Deschanel

It's simple, really: Be great right now so that you can be great later on. — Pete Carroll

It's not pain. It's raw material. — Jo Bell

Mind chatter: a clatter of left-brain rains of doubt, worry, guilt, shame in a thunderstorm of fear. Forgive the chatter, clear your mind. — Soul Dancer

Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

People were just too complex to reduce to simple personality traits. — Brandon Sanderson

I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is guilt in every direction: guilt because I don't practice religion, guilt because I was able to walk away, while this man was dying of starvation or being murdered by another man with a gun. And I am tired of guilt, tired of saying to myself: I didn't kill that man on that photograph, I didn't starve that child. That's why I want to photograph landscapes and flowers. I am sentencing myself to peace. — Don McCullin

I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it. — Claudia Kennedy

Browsing the first editions at my local independent bookstore, I came across 'Pastoralia,' a collection of stories by George Saunders. I'd read one of the stories in it already, and several other Saunders stories in magazines and anthologies, and liked them all. — Trenton Lee Stewart

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened. — Lucian

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders. Possibly my favorite book. It's one of the weirdest books I've ever read. If Monty Python and Thomas Pynchon had a love child, and it was raised by Frank Zappa on a weird commune, that would be this book. — Libba Bray