Sawdon Ridge Quotes & Sayings

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation. — Alain Badiou

it is a great mercy to be reclaimed and called home when we go astray, though it be by a tempest. — Matthew Henry

When I finish a song, I thank God for bringing me through. You have to press on and know your calling. That's what I've been doing for all my life. I just went forward. — Andrae Crouch

Our distracted digital world is here to stay, so the question is more of how we can truly embrace the beauty that is the stillness and the silence. — Tony Curl

That's the thing with whispers, you know you put a thousand of them together and you get howl. — Brian McGreevy

In countries of more advanced civilisation and of a more insurrectionary spirit, the public, accustomed to expect everything to be done for them by the State, or at least to do nothing for themselves without asking from the State not only leave to do it, but even how it is to be done, naturally hold the State responsible for all evil which befalls them, and when the evil exceeds their amount of patience, they rise against the government and make what is called a revolution; whereupon somebody else, with or without legitimate authority from the nation, vaults into the seat, issues his orders to the bureaucracy, and everything goes on much as it did before; the bureaucracy being unchanged, and nobody else being capable of taking their place. A very different spectacle is exhibited among a people accustomed to transact their own business. In France, a large part of the people — John Stuart Mill

It was the horror of someone who'd been dealt a winning hand, had bet her life on the game, and then proceeded (deliberately?) to lose. — Marie Rutkoski

Only when we find the courage to explore our fears will we have the power to wholeheartedly embrace love. — Shannon Tanner

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice. — Benjamin Tucker

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. — Susan Sontag

We ride the blades again
beside the crooked bay. You smile.
I hold you like a hole holds light.

We wear our hats and ride the knives.
They cannot fix you. They try and try.
Tunnel! Into the dark open we go.
Days you are sick, we get dressed slow. — Maria Hummel