Unseasonable Truths Quotes & Sayings

I don't think of faith as something you need to have in the world, or in some deity or religion or whatever; I think having faith is about trusting in yourself, and trusting that you'll know what to do when life gets complicated. I'm not scared of complications. But I am scared of walking away from something I want with every fibre of my being, without even trying to have it. — Dianna Hardy

My mom's a screenwriter, and before that, she was an actress, and my father was an actor; my stepfather was a director, so I was on sets a lot as a kid. I loved the magic of the set. You walk in, and it's a living room, and you walk outside, and it's just a piece of wood held up by another piece of wood. — Jennifer Jason Leigh

Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it. — Jase Robertson

he had had some eye work done: a lift to remove the puff and bloat; he would rather look startled and insane than look fifty-six. — Lorrie Moore

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. — Camille Paglia

Mindfulness of self: personal moderation to escape mass consumerism Mindfulness of work: the balancing of work and leisure Mindfulness of knowledge: the cultivation of education Mindfulness of others: the exercise of compassion and cooperation Mindfulness of nature: the conservation of the world's ecosystems Mindfulness of the future: the responsibility to save for the future Mindfulness of politics: the cultivation of public deliberation and shared values for collective action through political institutions Mindfulness of the world: the acceptance of diversity as a path to peace This — Jon Kabat-Zinn

What if there is a carefully shielded alliance with a clear aim to break Washington? An alliance that has relentlessly been carrying out that plan for decades, under the guise of something completely different? — Jeff Nesbit

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless. — Eddie Vedder

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong. — Saul Kripke

Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood ... by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing. — Anne Taylor Fleming

I do not write, I build. — Alvar Aalto

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. — Helen Keller

Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates. — Sophie Hannah