Veijo Kinnunen Quotes & Sayings

We lived so long and so self-consciously that we assumed we must live forever, and we buried our dead with enough talismans and spare change for eternity. — Natalie Angier

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. — Ogden Nash

I'd overlooked the obvious because my focus had always been elsewhere! All along, this that I had been seeking was already here. — Brandon Bays

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion. — Tertullian

Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength. — Edward Kitsis

If we define society as a human community, then the transformation of individual attitudes and values represents meaningful social change. — Leslie Weisman

It was no accident that the beau ideal of his (John Adams') political philosophy was balance, since he projected onto the world the conflicting passions he felt inside himself and regarded government as the balancing mechanism that prevented those factions and furies from spending out of control. — Joseph J. Ellis

If we must die, O let us nobly die. — Claude McKay

Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance? — Eugene B. Sledge

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits — Michael Novak

Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it. — Gregory Maguire