Power Outages Scared Quotes & Sayings

Oh the house of denial has thick walls
and very small windows
and whoever lives there, little by little,
will turn to stone.
In those years I did everything I could do
and I did it in the dark
I mean, without understanding.
I ran away.
I ran away again
(from poem: Hum, Hum) — Mary Oliver

But the true measure of a society's freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats good loyalists. — Glenn Greenwald

Death is not to be feared. Death is easy. It is living that is brutal. — Patricia Briggs

The traditional version of history bequeathed to us by the authorities of the Roman Church is that Christianity developed from the teachings of a Jewish Messiah and that Gnosticism was a later deviation. What would happen, we wondered, if the picture were reversed and Gnosticism viewed as the authentic Christianity, just as the Gnostics themselves claimed? Could it be that orthodox Christianity was a later deviation from Gnosticism and that Gnosticism was a synthesis of Judaism and the Pagan Mystery religion? — Tim Freke

It made no sense to me that people would hate the very thing they aspired to become. — Steve Toltz

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. — Edward Gibbon

Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enough to go to film school at USC, and I got a crash course in how to tell a story efficiently. I learned structure, pace, my style, how to know your audience, and most importantly, how to take criticism and edits properly. — Victoria Aveyard

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green. — Helena Blavatsky

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes. — Ameen Rihani

You can never fully appreciate the ups if you have not conquered the downs. — Ramit Gupta

I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time. — Ed Harris

Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution. — Eduardo Paes