Weakerthans Chords Quotes & Sayings

Blau suffered from a mild form of messianism, an ailment as common among Jewish males as nearsightedness. (p. 264) — Rebecca Goldstein

If you listen to the Catholic bishops you would think that Catholics are against contraception and legal abortion, but if you ask actual Catholics, you discover that more than 90% of Catholic women use contraception and Catholic women seem to need and choose legal abortion at about the same rate as everybody else. The problem is that the backlash occupies positions of power, not that it represents the majority of people. — Gloria Steinem

O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in the world at this time — Bill Hayes

Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him. — Terry Zwigoff

To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child's heart, and spiritual simplicity. — Norman Vincent Peale

Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,
And what is invisible stays that way. — Mark Strand

Many vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human lives. They are Iying. The truth is that animal experiments kill people, and animal researchers are responsible for the deaths of thousands of men, women and children every year. — Vernon Coleman

Death was easy. Life was complicated. — Callie Hunter