Toklas Companion Quotes & Sayings

Twice a week we attended a political 'seminar', where we were continually told that we were doing our sacred duty to help make the border totally secure. — Svetlana Alexievich

The people of Hispaniola had their lives unjustly and savagely taken by professed Jesus followers, and they were not, as we all know, the only ones to meet such a fate. Millions of their Indigenous sisters and brothers on Turtle Island were killed at the hands of other Europeans, as nation after imperial nation, bearing Christ on their lips and crosses on their military standards, followed suit.21 — Brian D. McLaren

Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery. — Robert Crippen

This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time. — Teena Marie

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law. — Eric Liu

I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind. — Richard Greenberg

Talking jaw is better than going to war. — Lord Randolph Churchill

You know, we'll hardly get our feet out of time [and] into eternity that we'll bow our heads in shame and humiliation. We'll gaze on eternity and say, 'My God! Look at all the riches there were in Jesus Christ, and I've come to the Judgment Seat almost a pauper! — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I'm not designed to interact with society. — Damon Galgut

Before there can be change there must be discontent. — Paul Bowles

Normal is just a settng on your dryer — Patsy Clairmont

I tell you, that switch from B.C. to A.D. must have driven people nuts. I bet more than a few Israelites missed their dental appointments. — Tom Robbins

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement. — James S. Coleman

Things are perfect only in the eye of the beholder. It's the uniqueness that drives us. Life isn't about what is perfect for everybody else; it's about what is perfect for you. — A.E. Woodward