Wideacre Book Quotes & Sayings

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts. — Hortense Calisher

I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that may exceed what happened in the late nineteenth century, early twentieth century. — Russ Feingold

It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity. — Claire Holden Rothman

A novel which I called Pornografia. At that time it wasn't such a bad title, today, in view of the excess of pornography, it sounds banal, and in a few languages it was changed to Seduction. — Witold Gombrowicz

Evidence shows that having even weak social connections in a stressful situation is really good for your health and your ability to handle that situation. — Jane McGonigal

Just as the brain has its own way of operating, the ears another, the eyes yet another, and the body, fingers and toes yet another means, our intuition can be further divided into separate skills. — Catherine Carrigan

I rose, locking eyes with Maxon, who I noticed had stopped chewing. — Kiera Cass

I wondered how many people had sung By the dawn's early light' yesterday and were dead today. — Susan Beth Pfeffer

Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

If you have never been saved,you need to stop right where you are and admit to God that you are a sinner in need of salvation. Then ask Him for the gift of eternal life that was made available to you when Christ took your punishment and died for your sins on the cross.
Whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. — Jerry L. Ross

The first education should be the harmonious development of the child's physical, mental and spiritual powers. Providing warm and understanding responses to your children's 'hearts' accomplishes far more than pressuring book knowledge into their minds. — Dorothy Moore

The laws of physics were the OS of some inconceivable supercomputer called reality. — Peter Watts

I have to admit, in the end, I like to surrender to someone; the person I love. — Laura Pausini

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured. — Jane Austen