Putumayo River Quotes & Sayings

Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity.Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are. — Roger Scruton

If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God. — Leo Tolstoy

The boy held her tighter, murmured soft words to lull her to sleep.
"It's only a nightmare," he whispered. "The dreams will stop."
He didn't understand. The dreams were the only place it was safe to use her power now, and she longed for them. — Leigh Bardugo

I advance it therefore [...] that the blacks [...] are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind. — Thomas Jefferson

Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop. — Charles Stross

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. — Mary Schmich