Sigelei Quotes & Sayings

Religion in Chinatown, as in most places, is based less on a cogent theology and more on a collection of random fears, superstitions, prejudices, forgotten customs, vestigial animism, and social control. Mrs. Ling, while a professed Buddhist of the Pure Land tradition, also kept waving cat charms, lucky coins, and put great faith in the good fortune of the color red ... and was very much in favor of any tradition, superstition, or ritual that involved fireworks ... — Christopher Moore

In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice. — Mary Anne Radmacher

If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in the revolution than the French church and especially the Jesuits. — Mike Jay

We know how to be doctors, nurses, lawyers. We know how to be tweeters. We know how to be everything. But how do you just be people? How do you be present with one another? How do you be honest with one another? How do you be compassionate towards one another, forgiving towards one another? We know what to do. We don't know what to be, how to be. — Iyanla Vanzant

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree — Guy Gavriel Kay

He felt another tremor of emotion as he saw the faces of Chuck and Newt and Teresa in his mind's eye. A — James Dashner

Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic reasons. Nature is moving and making new things. — Theo Jansen

Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. — Geraldine Brooks

I understand that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pg 98 — Ayn Rand

your shoes are carrying your most valuable possession - your life. Do not delay. Everything else can be replaced, — Ruta Sepetys