Stetten Lecture Quotes & Sayings

The only one who lived with the chaplain in his clearing in the woods was Corporal Whitcomb, his assistant. Corporal Whitcomb, an atheist, was a disgruntled subordinate who felt he could do the chaplain's job much better than the chaplain was doing it and viewed himself, therefore, as an underprivileged victim of social inequity. — Joseph Heller

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. — Martha Beck

She was mystified by people who were always hurrying things along. A time of waiting offered moments, minutes, sometimes even hours of peace, of rest, during which, as a rule, she was alone with herself. — Jan-Philipp Sendker

The capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them. — Anne Truitt

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history, — Antonio Guterres

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand. — Flann O'Brien

Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people. — Ezra Taft Benson

They cowered in a corner as far away as they could from the sound of ripping, tearing and banging. The creature above was frantically trying to find a way through the floor to them.
The terrifying scraping noise signaled that the thing had torn its way through the clean, white woolen carpet that had neatly covered the hard wood floorboards. Now it scraped its claws along the wood trying to find a hold.
In frustration, and after many attempts, it thumped the floor in anger. Screaming a long high-pitched whistle, it smashed itself hard and heavily against the floor.
Dust drifted towards them as they looked to each other for any suggestions to the one impending question upon all of their minds.
How are we going to get out of here alive? — Robert E. Kreig

I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ to me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment. — Mother Teresa

But I loved that house, and I hated to say good-bye. Because, it was more than just a house. It was every summer, every boat ride, every sunset. It was Susannah. — Jenny Han

Up the well known creek — Margery Allingham

Education is gathering information and reading ... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it. — Victor LaValle

In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain. — Richard Stallman

Some stories are true that never happened. — Elie Wiesel