Verraros Quotes & Sayings

A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa. — Ilana Mercer

There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew. — William Cartwright

Caught baffled by the perplexing slow-release of sadness for ever and ever and ever. Which — Max Porter

We love comfort, and people make a lot of money selling us comfort, but I would challenge the notion that comfort is usually good for us. — Daniel Lieberman

Every religion I know of has changed its views with respect to concrete controversies over long periods of time. People's views about the morality of homosexuality are likely to undergo some change, even though they're making judgments based on their religious beliefs. Because in fact, religion is an extremely durable, and yet flexible, way of trying to apprehend what's good and what's bad in the world. In fact, its durability comes from its flexibility. Now, speaking from inside a religion, it's hard to talk that way. — Jack Balkin

I've never touched Auggie Pullman, it's only because I've never had a reason to - that's all!) Nobody — R.J. Palacio

The first newspaper I worked on was the 'Springfield Union' in Springfield, Massachusetts. I wrote over a hundred letters to newspapers asking for work and got three responses, two no's. — Tom Wolfe

Most of the criticism I get is that I am too positive and too hopeful ... in my words, I don't beat people down enough. — Joel Osteen

I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death as we do and can afford to be calm and silent. The frailest flower that blooms knows that it will rise from the dead in the next season's sun, breathe, feel again the dew and rain. Therefore these little ones make no such tragedy as we do of death. — Corra May Harris

As the clutter of outrageous, fantastical photographs that today occupy Sandy Island's place on Google Earth suggests, Sandy Island's disappearance established it as a rebel base for the imagination, an innocent and an upstart that managed to escape the vast technologies of omni-knowledge. — Anonymous