Thenotebook Quotes & Sayings

[on her Amish friends]I do know this family has borne losses and grief, just like the rest of us. But if they are generally content, must such a life inevitably be dismissed as mythical, or else merely quaint? ... It sounds like a community type that went extinct a generation ago. But it didn't, not completely. If a self-sufficient farming community has survived here, it remains a possibility elsewhere. — Barbara Kingsolver

From Chile to China to Iraq, torture has been a silent partner in the global free-market crusade. — Naomi Klein

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person. — Brother Ali

In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time ... I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well ... I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit. — Emma Donoghue

You need to release yourself of any expectation of what that material should be. Just start letting it be what it's naturally evolving into, even if it means just pulling words out of the dictionary and laying them one after another. Words are everywhere. — Antony Hegarty

The first time you fall in love, it will change your life forever. — Nicholas Sparks

There are no wrongs just write. — Beverly Gail Bernett

Until we become the change we seek, the change we seek will never come. — Carlos Wallace

This shift from the Judeo-Christian basis for law and the shift away from the restraints of the Constitution automatically militates against religious liberty. — Francis Schaeffer