Waterbird Spirits Quotes & Sayings

Tolerance is bullshit. There is nothing to tolerate. We don't tolerate lovely people, we enjoy their company. I hate that term. — Kim Holden

Embryonic stem cell research wears no political stripes - it is embraced by conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. — Diana DeGette

Give the world the best you have, and the best will come to you. — Madeline Bridges

So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life. — Jackson Browne

Ah! If you have a self-will in your hearts, pray to God to uproot it. Have you self-love? Beseech the Holy Spirit to turn it out; for if you will always will to do as God wills, you must be happy. I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, "What!? all this, and Christ too?" What is "all this," compared with what we deserve? And I have read of someone dying, who was asked if he wished to live or die; and he said, "I have no wish at all about it." "But if you might wish, which would you choose?" "I would not choose at all." "But if God bade you choose?" "I would beg God to choose for me, for I would not know which to take." Oh happy state! to be perfectly acquiescent, to lie passive in His hand, and know no will but His. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

That hierarchical inequality, the need for self surrender, the willing sacrifice of self to others, hold sway in the realm beyond Nature. It is indeed only love that makes the difference: all those very same principles which are evil in the world of selfishness and necessity are good in the world of love and understanding. — C.S. Lewis

Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least."
Briar: "No - if she bit him, he'd die. — Tamora Pierce

All boundaries are conventions. — David Mitchell

America is addicted to wars of distraction. — Barbara Ehrenreich

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. — Christopher Marlowe

Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life. — Queen Rania Of Jordan

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven. — St. Jerome

By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions. — Adam Ross