Secret Santa Poem Reveal Quotes & Sayings

No one know precisely how sentient is a pinyon pine, for example, or to what degree such woody organisms can feel pain or fear, and in any case the road builders had more important things to worry about, but this much is clearly established as scientific face: a living tree, once uprooted, takes many days to wholly die. — Edward Abbey

Many intelligent and well-informed people were keenly interested in the future of the economy and did not believe a catastrophe was imminent; I infer from this fact that the crisis was not knowable. What is perverse about the use of know in this context is not that some individuals get credit for prescience that they do not deserve. It is that the language implies that the world is more knowable than it is. It helps perpetuate a pernicious illusion. — Daniel Kahneman

There seemed no motion, no rhythm, in all the world, but that which I had set up, between her legs, with one wet fingertip. — Sarah Waters

She moved through it carrying her fat book, attracted, unsure, a stranger, wanting to feel relevant but knowing how much of a search among alternative universes it would take. — Thomas Pynchon

Then he remembered Ralph's words
no point in fighting your war over and over until you get it right. — M.L. Stedman

Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone who actually embodies all of those qualities. — Christopher Hitchens

This gift cannot be worked for, earned, or achieved. It's not dependent on our merit or effort but solely on Christ's generous sacrifice on our behalf. — Randy Alcorn

The ambition of most beings is just to stay alive, overeat, spend too much, and avoid hard work. I'm happy that I can achieve much more than that ... and we all die sooner or later. A death in service of a great ideal is a fine thing. — Karen Traviss

I'm bad without personal benefit, and good only when I'm irresponsible. Sort of a sinful angel, an immoral virgin, an honest criminal. — Mesa Selimovic

I actually have a closet that's all shoes, maybe 700 pairs. — Russell Westbrook

I can't imagine myself not being an actor. — Scott Michael Foster

What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company? — Saint Teresa Of Avila

When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants. — Ruchi Sanghvi

I am crying because there is no other way to show what I feel: I am alive. I am alive in every pore and every cell of my body. I am alive. — Paulo Coelho

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute. — Noam Chomsky