Varsimsom Quotes & Sayings

I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other hand, the cornucopia of products and innovation - I love Apple, for example. That's a temple of consumerism in many ways. — John Elkington

At a distance, we see a need and ignore it. We judge it, condemn it, forget it. We don't think about it, because if we practice ignorance long enough, we don't notice the need anymore. It goes underground, and we're content with the surface of life as we know it - unwilling to break deeper ground. If all appears to be well on the outside, that is good enough for our consciences.
... If we are willing to dig deep, to find Calcutta in our own backyards, we will find the poor. But we will also find God. And He may just open our eyes, so that we can see the need and not soon forget. So that we can hear their cries and not grow deaf. So that we can smell the stench of human need and awaken our hearts to compassion. — Jeff Goins

All Australians are an uneducated and unruly mob. — Douglas Jardine

But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can't know everything about the world and that it's probably good to keep an open mind about things, just in case. — Karen Tayleur

Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth. — Thomas Sowell

He descends upon the chosen as upon the Lord in Jordan, and bears witness to their sonship by working in them a filial spirit by which they cry Abba, Father. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution. — Scott Cook

First, the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order. -Jace Wayland — Cassandra Clare

What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually. — Stephenie Meyer

From a contradiction you may deduce everything — Janna Levin

Slippers was asleep on the bed, curled up and blissfully oblivious to her suffering as cats usually were. — Amy Hutchinson

When I'm in this state, everything is pure, vividly clear. I'm in a cocoon of concentration. — Tony Jacklin