The Chrysalids Intolerance Quotes & Sayings

A very scurvy fellow. — William Shakespeare

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common. — William Hazlitt

I've never liked spending a lot of time on beauty stuff. I have two eye pencils that I use, and that's it. — Justine Bateman

Some people read to be entertained, as an escape. Others read to be intellectually challenged. Again, both commercial and literary fiction can accomplish these things. Neither has a sole claim over these goals. But as a generalization, commercial fiction tends to focus on entertaining, while literary fiction is more likely to present a challenge. Literary novelists rarely seek to satisfy the reader but to discomfort them. — Jane Friedman

Heaven is the most beautiful thing God has ever made, outside of women, God bless them!-And in fact He even uses you women to symbolise the City and He calls that City His Bride, the New Heaven, the New Jerusalem! How about that? He couldn't think of anything more beautiful to symbolise that City than you, you beautiful girls, so He called it His Bride! Why? Because His Bride's going to live there! — David Berg

Stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French. — Gertrude Atherton

He who is not getting better is getting worse. — Ignatius Of Loyola

To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field. — James Rennell

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about. — Tom DeMarco

I became interested in film as a viewer when I was a teenager. I would spend entire afternoons in an arthouse theater in downtown Santiago. I didn't really expect to be a filmmaker back then. But it was clearly an interest. — Omar Zuniga

True zazen is surrendering every moment. But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the Tao or the Dharma or the Buddha or our true nature ... It is the act of letting go, of surrendering, that matters. The very act of letting go opens us up completely. — Dennis Merzel