Uninsurable Conditions Quotes & Sayings

A saint belongs to all humanity. — Elif Shafak

The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime. — Robert McKee

I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives. — Tayari Jones

No time ago
or else a life
walking in the dark
i met christ
jesus)my heart
flopped over
and lay still
while he passed(as
close as i'm to you
yes closer
made of nothing
except loneliness. — E. E. Cummings

The creed of evil has been, since the beginnings of highly industrialized society, not only a precursor of barbarism but a mask of good. The worth of the latter was transferred to the evil that drew to itself all the hatred and resentment of an order which drummed good into its adherents so that it could with impunity be evil. — Theodor Adorno

The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of which is that the working people perish in old age and the employer abounds in affluence. — Thomas Paine

The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you. — Jeff VanderMeer

Your promise means more than the words you use to give it. — Ron Kaufman

I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo. — Kaley Cuoco

Will you show me what you really look like? You don't sparkle, do you? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

As Robert Musil once observed, an essay is an "attempt," but it is an attempt that is qualified and determined. For Musil, the essay eschews conventional notions of "true" and "false," "wise" and "unwise," but it is "nevertheless subject to laws that are no less strict than they appear to be delicate and ineffable" (Musil, 1953/1995, p. 301). The essay, still according to Musil, therefore lingers somewhere "between amor intellectualis and poetry. — Michael Hviid Jacobsen