Thermidorian Stove Quotes & Sayings

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because
I have not been embarrassed to talk about God. — Dorothy Day

If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it. — Andy Weir

I understood and agreed that from a feminist perspective working in a strip club was extremely problematic, but I was saving money to travel and making more in one night than most of my friends made in a week. Plus, it was interesting. — Periel Aschenbrand

Generosity is a mark of bravery, so all Sioux boys were taught to be generous. — Luther Standing Bear

I sat there thinking this had to be the pits. I was afraid that I had become fed up with life, that I would never ever feel enthusiasm again. — Erlend Loe

One must love God first, and only then can one love one's closest of kin and neighbors. We must not be idols to one another, for such is not the will of God. — Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

I don't understand hate. I've seen its power. I've known its wrath. I've even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I don't know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold in some people and grow. — Ally Carter

[William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us. — Eudora Welty

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. — Nelson Mandela

I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it. — Jackson Browne

As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes reach it by going first through the head and what is wrong in the blood can sometimes be tempered by the head. — Flannery O'Connor

During World War II, the University of Minnesota's Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene conducted what scientists and relief workers still regard today as a benchmark study of starvation. Partly funded by religious groups, including the Society of Friends, the study was intended to help the Allies cope with released concentration-camp internees, prisoners of war, and refugees. The participants were all conscientious objectors who volunteered to lose 25 percent of their body weight over six months. The experiment was supervised by Dr. Ancel Keys (for whom the K-ration was named). The volunteers lived a spare but comfortable existence at a stadium on the campus of the University of Minnesota. — Nathaniel Philbrick

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable. — Perry Brass

When you touch a man's nostalgia, he is yours. — Amy Tan

To be meek and humble means to have a service attitude towards God, the Vaisnavas, and all living beings. Unless we have that, our chanting will have minimal effect and many births may pass before we finally come to the conclusion. — Radhanath Swami