Sparknotes Obasan Quotes & Sayings

A ley line is what might be called a field of force, a trail of telluric energy. There are hundreds of them, perhaps thousands, all over Britain, and they've been around since the Stone Age. — Stephen R. Lawhead

If a pastor's activity in the church is merely a once-a-week attempt to tow the congregation's cargo ship a little closer to eternity, the whole thing comes to nothing. A human life, unlike a cargo ship, cannot lie in the same place until the next Sunday. — Soren Kierkegaard

In their armor they were all the same, and that was the point, he understood. But he took pleasure in the moments when he could see their variety and diversity - those moments when he could glimpse the people beneath the armor and see them as more than just faceless, nameless soldiers identified by letters and numbers and nothing more. — Greg Rucka

Her one desire, so long resisted, to make herself his, to call him her lord, her own - then, — Thomas Hardy

SOCIETY AS COMPULSIVE AND ADDICTED Our society is highly addictive. We have sixty million sexual abuse victims. Possibly seventy-five million lives are seriously affected by alcoholism, with no telling how many more through other drugs. We have no idea of the actual impact on our economy of the billions of tax-free dollars that come from the illegal drug trade. Over fifteen million families are violent. Some 60 percent of women and 50 percent of men have eating disorders. We have no actual data on work addiction or sexual addictions. I saw a recent quotation that cited thirteen million gambling addicts. If toxic shame is the fuel of addiction, we have a massive problem of shame in our society. — John Bradshaw

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be. — Trey Parker

What, if as said, man is a bubble. — Marcus Terentius Varro

The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so. — Jacquelyn Mitchard

Books were considered a sign of idleness at best and dangerous at worst. — James Rebanks

You've got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. — Barbra Streisand

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new. — Nicolas Ghesquiere

It [angling] deserves commendations; ... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man. — Izaak Walton

Constructing a strong and beautiful sentence is the highest form of architecture. Because whereupon seeing a beautiful building one may think, but to read a sentence one has to think. — Garry Fitchett