Vestra Quotes & Sayings

She had always asked him what, exactly, he was training for.
Now she knew. — Terri Blackstock

We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose. — William J. Clinton

The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body. — William Meade

Unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system. — Rigoberta Menchu

Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra' That is, Now your blessedness appears. — Sylvain Reynard

However much we are affected by the things of the world, however deeply they may stir and stimulate us, they become human for us only when we can discuss them with our fellows. Whatever cannot become the object of discourse - the truly sublime, the truly horrible or the uncanny - may find human voice through which to sound into the world, but it is not exactly human. We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human. — Hannah Arendt

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven. — Richard Paul Evans

Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free. — Shannon L. Alder

It is my wish to die of unique causes, perhaps in a high-speed tricycle crash, a bizarre stapling incient, or as a result of inadvertently sucking my brains out through my ear while trying to untwist the vacuum hose. — Paula Poundstone

It was if another planet were calling. The call, embodied, issued in liquid syllables from the mouth of the Arab sailor who, on the prow of the Vestra each sun-up, looked toward the East and sang the Persian song:
Hearken unto dawn, oh, my soul ...
Let good come unto the world. — Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

Mankind is unamendable. — Alexander Pope

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national. — Salman Rushdie

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation. — Wendell Berry

Unfortunately for the existing mature systems in nature, the rapid expansion of the human bubble is destroying them. Unfortunately for us, we can't exist without them any more than a living person can exist without oxygen or a body can exist without a head. In this sense, it is actually a conceptual error to define the environment as the rest of the biosphere save humans, and think of ourselves as apart from it, since we can't exist without it. — Jacob Lund Fisker