Shrikes Quotes & Sayings

The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one. — Bridget Riley

Failure in Innovation - it's a price worth paying. — Tim Harford

We see anything actionable, we don't react to it. We consider it. — Bryan Larrick

Shrikes were songbirds; he ought to know. — Jodi Meadows

I think I did it because I was hurting. I think I wanted to mark that hurt in the outside. I think I wanted to be someone else. But I didn't know who yet. — Lidia Yuknavitch

The last thing I needed was a nymph with sunshine coming out of her ass tagging along with me. — Jaye Wells

Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk. — Gene Luen Yang

Every Christian has the chance to become an outstanding person. — Sunday Adelaja

Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence. — Whittaker Chambers

I want time in which to walk quietly over the earth, among uncrazed men. I want time in which to build a house, inhabit it, create a past with meaning. I want time in which to seek and find love. I want time. I want to be unhurried, uncaught. I want time in which to sleep and waken, in which to dream the truth of my being on earth. Time. — William, Saroyan

A great book is a homing device
For navigating paradise.
A good book somehow makes you care
About the comfort of a chair.
A bad book owes to many trees
A forest of apologies. — J. Patrick Lewis

Every person shall be free to do good ' at his own expense. — Milton Friedman

Any kind of organized revolt against the party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid. The clever thing to do was to break the rules and stay alive all the same. — George Orwell

And the victim must have been broken and must remain so, so that the externalization of evil is possible. The victim who refuses to assume this role contradicts society's simplistic view. Nobody wants to see it. People would have to take a look at themselves. — Natascha Kampusch