Shermann Alexie Quotes & Sayings

The primary narrative that forms our ministry models draws from our evangelical success stories. We are presented with triumphalistic narratives that minimize stories of struggle. Our historical reflection reveals an obsession with success and celebration while stories of survival and suffering are ignored. History is often told by the victorious and therefore favors them. In — Soong-Chan Rah

I wondered which things inside a person might be indigenous or nonindigenous, but it isn't as easy to trace those kinds of things in a person as it is in a country. I wished that I could point to some colonizer and blame him for everything that was nonindigenous in me, whoever or whatever had fucked my ecosystem, had made me misunderstand myself - but I couldn't blame anyone for it. — Catherine Lacey

The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very important and aggressive piece, and the beginner should realize this, and utilize his king as much as possible. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point. — Maurice Saatchi

Many men are like unto sausages: Whatever you stuff them with, that they will bear in them. — Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy

The advantage we have as Americans is that we can be fair; we tend to be more open-minded about different styles of wine. — Robert M. Parker Jr.

So inveterate is their appetite for Heaven that our best method, at this stage, of attaching them to earth is to make them believe that earth can be turned into Heaven at some future date by politics or eugenics or 'science' or psychology, or what not. Real — C.S. Lewis

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. — William James

Never let success get to your head and never let failure get to your heart. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Whatever the weather I went out and wandered, and now I wandered with K.; I introduced him to my solitude and he deepened it without disturbance. — Garth Greenwell

I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world. — Ann Macbeth