Wendell Berry Quotes
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.Wendell Berry
Quotes to Explore
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
Vernon Jordan -
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson -
When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
Natalie Portman -
I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
Olivia Wilde -
I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
Fatos Nano
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
Maika Monroe -
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
Edmund Waller -
Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
Mallory Ortberg -
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke -
I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
Adam Baldwin -
The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
Ma Jun
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
Dan Rosensweig -
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
M. Ward -
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
Mal Peet -
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
Madeleine L'Engle -
Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.
Ingrid Newkirk -
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P. T. Barnum
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Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.
Ken Hill -
I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.
Chely Wright -
I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.
Oswald Mosley -
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Edward Young -
Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
Debi Gliori -
There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
Wendell Berry