Truth And Reconciliation Commission Quotes & Sayings

MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced a radical suspension of disbelief. As in the early days of the cinema, all the citizens are jumping through the screen to lay their hands on the naked lady in the bathtub!
AMBASSADOR: And yet, in fact, their fingers touch flesh.
MINISTER: They believe they do. Yet all they touch is substantial shadow.
AMBASSADOR: And what a beautiful definition of flesh! You know I am only substantial shadow, Minister, but if you cut me, I bleed. Touch me, I palpitate! — Angela Carter

Throughout his work, Philip Levine's most powerful commitment has been to the failed and lost, the marginal, the unloved, the unwanted. — Edward Hirsch

I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia. — Megan Smith

The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like 'Vagabond' by Takehiko Inoue. — Toyin Odutola

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India. — Damon Galgut

An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving. — M. Scott Peck

People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate. — Mandy Patinkin

I don't like to give out advice. I make suggestions when I get to know somebody a little bit, but I don't know about advice. — Matt Dillon

We know what we want to do, but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream. — Anonymous

I would never tell anybody to get a divorce. — Jessa Crispin

Disbelief is the first great silencer. — Laura Bates

The divinity of thy soul is a spark of divine-self. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Abdicating-Decision-Making — Karen Kingston

His massive head tilted. He regarded her with a gaze made tranquil by the bright sun and the limitless sky.
She said in wonder, "You are the riddle."
"Of course I am," said the gryphon. — Thea Harrison

Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you. — Henry J. Kaiser

In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide

It doesn't bother me at all. Do I hold any hard feelings? Not at all, ... Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges. I don't hold any whatsoever. — Kobe Bryant