Vanellis Forest Quotes & Sayings

The moral development of a civilization is measured by the breadth of its sense of community. — Anatol Rapoport

I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A. — Tom Hayden

Japan is a bully nation that takes what it wants and threatens any who oppose it. — Paul Watson

Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be. — Temple Grandin

Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental to his advancement in that very thing in which they designed his ruin (Gen. 50:20). — John Flavel

Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling. — Martin Luther

Since reason is man's basic means of survival, that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; that which negates, opposes or destroys it is the evil. — Ayn Rand

There were nights when I got nothing, [but] I still played. With no one to hear me and no one to pay me, and it did not matter.
On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They slipped over my tongue and spilled from my mouth. And because of them I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.
It was dark and it was cold on those nights. The world was harsh and I was hungry. Yet I had such joy from the words. Such joy.
There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out loud, so happy was I.
The memory of it makes me laugh now, but not from happiness.
Be careful what you show the world.
You never know when the wolf is watching. — Jennifer Donnelly

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate. — W. Somerset Maugham