Quakerism 101 Quotes & Sayings

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour. — Henri Rousseau

Bashir paused to watch a live CNN feed ... Bashir was struck silent by the images of wailing Iraqi women carrying children's bodies out of the rubble of a bombed building.
As he studied the screen, Bashir's bullish shoulders slumped. "People like me are America's best friends in the region," Bashir said at last shaking his head ruefully, "I'm a moderate Msulim, an educated man. But watching this, even I could become a jihadi. How can Americans say they are making themselves safer?" Bashir asked, struggling not to direct his anger toward the large American target on the other side of the desk. "Your president Bush had done a wonderful job of uniting one billion Muslims against America for the next two hundred years. — Greg Mortenson

Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke. — Robert Henri

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object. — Samuel Smiles

If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad? — Michel De Montaigne

I'd imagine "murderess" trumps "wife" when defining a close relationship. — Robert Galbraith