Ramparts Magazine Quotes & Sayings

Reason may be depended upon to keep its balance when God gives the surcease of tears in time of trouble. — Gene Stratton-Porter

Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware. — Louise Erdrich

I could see that others had confused her disorganized passion for volatility. In reality, she was a scrumptious mess; deliciously majestic. She was on her way to great things in this life. — Steve Maraboli

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount. — Ernest Bramah

If I was going to play this game and love it, it had to love me back. — Amy Lane

For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly, we need to think about designing the types of institutions we need to get things done in this rapidly accelerating world. — John Seely Brown

The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I don't think there's any limit on True Blue Love. The more the merrier, I say," said Harry. — Patricia Martin

One adopted their language, that of the teachers and the schools, one had none of one's own. At first it was like a release, like a key, like a road. The only road in.
Much later one discovers that what one was let into, at that time, was a tunnel. From which one can never again escape. Not entirely. Not in this life. — Peter Hoeg

You have all the time there is between right now and whenever it's too late. — Daniel Abraham

Faith even the size of a mustard seed can move mountains, but many of us prefer the less spectacular but safer results that come from operating in our own strength.... Do we really believe that our prayers to an invisible God can and will change the hard hearts of tyrants, break down oppressive social and religious systems, and deliver fullness of life to those who suffer in abject hopelessness. F.B. Meyer wrote, 'You do not test the resources of God until you attempt the impossible. — Jason Mandryk

The very joyful thing about seeing ourselves and life from a place of gratitude instead of entitlement - is that this way of breathing allows us to be forgiving of difficult circumstances in life and of those people who delivered such difficult circumstances to us. Gratitude allows us second chances at joy; not with the same circumstances or those same people; but it alleviates the burden of bitterness that comes with not receiving what one believes he/she was entitled to have. We can instead look forward into life and see that there will be many good things and we will be grateful for them. — C. JoyBell C.

She found it soothing to get caught up in a brightly colored, plastic world where all that mattered was how much you ate and exercised, where pain and anguish were suffered over no greater tragedy than push-ups, where people spoke intensely about calories and sobbed joyfully over lost kilos. And then they all lived happily, skinnily ever after. — Liane Moriarty

I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul. — Alec Waugh