Pg 202 Quotes & Sayings

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.' — Maxine Hong Kingston

The Glasgow accent was so strong you could have built a bridge with it and known it would outlast the civilization that spawned it — Val McDermid

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives. — Julian Baggini

You are the silence and madness of my mind. — Nessie Q.

Will Human Nature destroy Nature and Humans? — Drats

Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight. — Johnny Cash

Fear Doesn't Shut You Down, It Wakes You Up — Veronica Roth

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. — Gautama Buddha

Miss Petitfour loved the little pictures, each in its own serrated frame and each seeming to tell it's own little story. — Anne Michaels

The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation. — Jane Gardam

Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of community, then, we are speaking of a complex connection not only among human beings or between humans and their homeland but also between human economy and nature, between forest or prairie and field or orchard, and between troublesome creatures and pleasant ones. All neighbors are included. (pg. 202-203, Conservation and Local Economy) — Wendell Berry

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them. — Anne Bronte

[looked at other peoples lives and said,] 'How can one let it come to that? How can one not undo this ugly situation?' But now, when the disaster had fallen on his head, he not only did not think of how to undo the situation, but did not want to know about it at all. — Leo Tolstoy