Spreuken Dankbaar Quotes & Sayings

It must not be supposed that atoms of every sort can be linked in every variety of combination. If that were so, you would see monsters coming into being everywhere. Hybrid growths of man and beast would arise. Lofty branches would spread here and there from a living body. Limbs of land-beast and sea-beast would often be conjoined. Chimeras breathing flame from hideous jaws would be reared by nature throughout the all-generating earth. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Everyone talks about green cities now, but the concrete results in affluent cities mostly involve curbside composting and tackling solar panels onto rooftops while residents continue to drive, to stop, to eat organic pears flown in from Argentina, to be part of the big machine of consumption and climate change. The free-range chickens and Priuses are great, but they alone aren't adequate tools for creating a truly different society and ecology. The future, at least the sustainable one, isn't going to be invented by people who are happily surrendering selective bits and pieces of environmentally unsound privilege. It's going to be made by those who had all that taken away from them or never had it in the first place. {...} There is no moral reason why they should do and be better than the rest of us - but there is a practical one. They have to. Detroit is where change is most urgent and therefore most viable. — Rebecca Solnit

Live your life, listen to your music way to loud, be crazy and as different as you want to be and always remember your not alone — Andy Biersack

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance. — J.C. Ryle

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. — C.S. Lewis

Speaking commits me Listening teaches me Silence tempers me Birth — Edouard Leve

In spite of everything life is not without hope. — Marilyn Monroe

The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good. — Al Franken

The past was ruins, but the present was still in play. They would have to tie him down to keep him from going to Ember's Tomb. — Lev Grossman