Utopianism Synonym Quotes & Sayings

I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little. — John Green

Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land. — Frank Murphy

No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts. — Dale Carnegie

The buildings, covered by red tiled roofs, undulate over the hillsides like a drift of wildflowers. — Jane Thompson

What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy ... and then he went and ministered to them both. This, I think, is the difference between charity and justice. Justice means moving beyond the dichotomy between those who need and those who supply and confronting the frightening and beautiful reality that we desperately need one another. — Rachel Held Evans

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot. — Susan Orlean

war, the human antithesis of art — Campbell McGrath

Then his head sank to the floor of its own accord and from his nostrils came the last faint flicker of his breath. — Franz Kafka

A teenage girl creaming while she listens to some boy-band, a monk digging on the God he hears in Gregorian chants, or John fucking Coltrane himself climbing up into the sky on a staircase made of sixteenth notes, it's all the same. If it takes you there, it's good. — Tad Williams

It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician. — Blake Judd

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem. — Oliver Goldsmith

What I do now for the people they don't understand it, but when they found it they won't have chance to back 10 or 5 years and to read this which I have and to use it for something more than this. — Deyth Banger

Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with the ego is playful and tentative rather than absolute and mandatory, while the concern with material possessions is pragmatic rather than obsessive. — Fritjof Capra