Veneen Kauppakirja Quotes & Sayings

Hatred always leaves a stain on the veil. But sometimes the hatred isn't your own. Sometimes you're chained, and the hatred beaten into you is another man's, grown in a different heart, and it takes longer than a fading bruise to forget. — Gregory David Roberts

Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice ... and settling for revenge. — Joan D. Vinge

Why do the poor refuse to give an accurate picture of their suffering? — Karan Mahajan

If we want to be Christians, we must have some share in Christ's large-heartedness by acting with responsibility and in freedom when the hour of danger comes, and by showing a real sympathy that springs, not from fear , but from the liberating and redeeming love of Christ for all who suffer. Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behavior. The Christian is called to sympathy and action, not in the first place by his own sufferings, but by the sufferings of his brethren, for whose sake Christ suffered. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I was disappearing. It was as if I stripped myself away in that darkened
bedroom on a spring afternoon, and when I was finished there would be a pile of
clothes neatly folded and I would be another number for the cable news shows. I
could almost hear it. "Another casualty today," they'd say, "vanished into thin
air after arriving home." Fine. I leaned down and finished unlacing the boot
and strung the dog tag back around my neck and let it lie against the other.
Left boot and left sock off. Pants off. Underwear off. I was gone. — Kevin Powers

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right. — Steve Carlton

The world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it. — Craig L. Rice

The gift of heaven is in the hands of every man. But — Joseph Conrad

So, apparently, if you are a pre-sentient mass of cells, this country will protect you and your rights to the n-th degree. If you have made the mistake of becoming an Iraqi citizen, apparently we can just drop bombs on you with impunity. — Janeane Garofalo

One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients. — Eula Biss

There is no such thing as lack of time, only unclear priorities and lack of motivation. It is better to abandon a project than to work on it half-heartedly for a protracted period of time. — Gudjon Bergmann

I was born bad, and I have lived bad, and I shall die bad in all probability. — Thomas Hardy