Preacriousness Quotes & Sayings

A shepherd's crown, not a royal one. A crown for someone who knew where she had come from. A crown for the lone light zigzagging through the night sky, hunting for a single lost lamb. A crown for the shepherd who was there to herd away the predators. — Terry Pratchett

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. — Bryan Clay

Precarity also characterizes that politically induced condition of maximized precariousness for populations exposed to arbitrary state violence who often have no other option than to appeal to the very state from which they need protection. — Judith Butler

The feel of arms around me, in comfort rather than as restraint or in harmful intent, undoes me. I cry for all the years of mocking and teasing received at the hands of my peers, for having been born to hateful, careless parents. I cry for the fact that this one good, kind boy has joined the game. And That makes me think it's hopeless to find any goon in anyone, which only makes me cry harder. — Cindy C. Bennett

I knew what leukemia and lymphoma were, but I had never heard of multiple myeloma. — Geraldine Ferraro

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism. — Michael Horton