Possibl Quotes & Sayings

A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game as possibl, and as cautiously, because it knows its girth and the tight confines of the china shop it's blundering into. And it knows that no matter how well prepared it is
no matter how ruthlessly it has held its projections up to intelligent scrutiny
the place it is headed for is going to very different from the place it imagined. The shortfall between the imagined and the real, multiplied by the violence of one's intent, equals the evil one will do. — George Saunders

The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids. — Dan Chaon

Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves. — Kathleen McDonald

You are nothing unless it comes from your heart. Passion, caring, really looking to create excellence. If you perform functions only and go to work only to do processes, then you are effectively retired. And it scares me - most people I see, by age twenty-eight are retired. — John C. Maxwell

Jesus Christ is too important to be left to the theologians. — Jaroslav Pelikan

All we are not stares back at what we are. — W. H. Auden

Men are beasts, selfish and brutal. However gentle the words, there are always darker motives underneath. — George R R Martin

I have a lot of respect for the Concord Coalition and have done work with them over the years. — Jason Furman

The smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring. — Margaret Millar

When the world does its level best to devalue me in ways that are nothing short of brutal, all it does is evidence my value. For why would it expend such massive amounts of energy attempting to destroy something that's not there? — Craig D. Lounsbrough