Yonder Alonso Quotes & Sayings

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history. — Carlton J. H. Hayes

I think any time someone's dreams are crushed, there's the people who can fight to still try and fulfill those dreams and then there's the people who just give up. — Constance Zimmer

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty. — David Halberstam

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise. — Dave Eggers

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things. — Richard Cecil

Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other times absurd, all this verbiage, these seemingly random consonants clattering on the string that is sound. — Rosie O'Donnell

It's crazy, that the defining moment of your life can be nothing to someone else. Like an infatuation, an unrequited love, every bit of you is drawn to it, orbits that heaviness at the center of your universe, everything you think and feel revolving around it and yet, nobody knows. Even the one who caused it. Especially the one who caused it. — Leah Raeder

Corporations care very much about maintaining the myth that government is necessarily ineffective, except when it is spending money on the military-industrial complex, building prisons, or providing infrastructural support for the business sector. — Michael Lerner

The wisest as well as the most dangerous men are those who observe without speaking. — Jeff Wheeler

Jesus doesn't divide the world up into the common and the sacred; he gives us eyes to see the sacred in the common. — Rob Bell

There were excesses in science and there were excesses in religion. A reasonable man wouldn't be stampeded by either one. There were many interpretations of Scripture and many interpretations of the natural world. Both were created by God, so both must be mutually consistent. Wherever a discrepancy seems to exist, either a scientist or a theologian - maybe both - hasn't been doing his job. Palmer — Carl Sagan

Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much. — Will Cuppy