Streben Quotes & Sayings

I'm always serious about my fun. I — Alastair Reynolds

Are we letting the world influence the church more than the church is affecting those in the world? — Betty S. Bender

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy. — Barack Obama

Working two part-time jobs and doing round-the-clock research was a snap compared to full-time motherhood, she said. — Diane Chamberlain

Instead of respecting things, we want to use them for ourselves and if it is difficult to use them, we want to conquer them. — Shunryu Suzuki

Without virtue, happiness cannot be. — Thomas Jefferson

The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction. — Kate Chopin

Matter never makes jokes: it is always full of the tragically serious. Who dares to think that you can play with matter, that you can shape it for a joke, that the joke will not be built in, will not eat into it like fate, like destiny? Can you imagine the pain, the dull imprisoned suffering, hewn into the matter of that dummy which does not know why it must be what it is, why it must remain in that forcibly imposed form which is no more than a parody? Do you understand the power of form, of expression, of pretense, the arbitrary tyranny imposed on a helpless block, and ruling it like its own, tyrannical, despotic soul? — Bruno Schulz