Verenestra Quotes & Sayings

There was nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. — Ross Macdonald

Maybe looking away is about privilege. I need to think harder and longer about my choices and recognize that choosing whom I see and whom I don't see is one of the most hurtful functions of privilege. — Brene Brown

You realize we can't go back to Sheridan."

"I know."

"Have to keep heading southwest now, and I don't know anything about the area. We'll probably get lost or walk into a road and a patrol."

"Well"-Hadrian looked down at Royce's side-"you're bleeding again, and I think I am, too, so the good news is we'll likely die before morning. Still, I suppose it could be worse."

"How?"

"They could have caught us at the tavern, or we could have drowned in that river."

"Either way we'd be dead. At this point I'm inclined to see that as better off."

"Anything can always be worse," Hadrian assured him.

They lay staring up at the sky and watching clouds blot out the stars. Royce heard it before he felt it. A distant patter on the blades of grass along the hillside. He turned once more to Hadrian. "I'm really starting to hate you. — Michael J. Sullivan

I suggest in my own discussion of this episode, Mann invites us to set the attempt to philosophize about his predicament in the context of Aschenbach's life. The literary presentation thus adds to the naked philosophical skeleton. — Philip Kitcher

How bout you and all your morals in that outfit that you borrowed/Make the most out of tonight and worry bout it all tomorrow. — Drake

the availability heuristic. We draw on what is readily available as truth and generalize this information as knowledge. — Deborah L. Plummer

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. — Stanislaw Lem

Instead of a deluded psycho who thinks he's doing the right thing, my new husband is simply a man without conscience — Anna Zaires

The Captain: A martyr, Lavinia, is a fool. Your death will prove nothing.
Lavinia: Then why kill me? — George Bernard Shaw

Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently. You have to accept that you can't change the past experiences, opinions of others at that moment in time or outcomes from their choices or yours. When you finally recognize that truth then you will understand the true meaning of forgiveness of yourself and others. From this point you will finally be free. — Shannon L. Alder