Sorsasalo Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge keeps no better than fish. — Alfred North Whitehead

Could there be a stressor as bad as this? Struggling to say a thing in a way you think people would be comfortable to hear you say it. — Chukwuka Amu

The most exemplary nature is that of the topsoil. It is very Christ-like in its passivity and beneficence, and in the penetrating energy that issues out of its peaceableness. It increases by experience, by the passage of seasons over it, growth rising out of it and returning to it, not by ambition or aggressiveness. It is enriched by all things that die and enter into it. It keeps the past, not as history or as memory, but as richness, new possibility. Its fertility is always building up out of death into promise. Death is the bridge or the tunnel by which its past enters its future. — Wendell Berry

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left. — Muriel Spark

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive. — Banana Yoshimoto

What is to become of an independent statesman, one who will bow the knee to no idol, who will worship nothing as a divinity but truth, virtue, and his country? I will tell you; he will be regarded more by posterity than those who worship hounds and horses; and although he will not make his own fortune, he will make the fortune of his country. — John Adams

To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born, you still wouldn't have spent a trillion. — Mitch McConnell

Laws ostensibly directed at undocumented immigrants inevitably affect the treatment of lawfully present immigrants and citizens who share the ethnic, racial, or national origin characteristics of undocumented immigrants. — Pratheepan Gulasekaram

Once lost, they are rarely found. — Joy Fielding