Wendell Berry Quotes

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

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• After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Loved
  • Alcohol
  • Salt

• My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Trying
  • She

• I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • English

• If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Earth
  • Vote
  • Resolution

• Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Trying
  • True
  • Hand

• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Day
  • Rest

• Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Time
  • Book
  • Boat

• It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Day

• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Shoes
  • Year
  • White

• My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Time
  • Job
  • Power

• I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Family
  • School
  • Culture

• I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • New
  • New York
  • Los Angeles

• We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Culture
  • Worry
  • Something

• We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things.

  

  Kyla Pratt

• By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Feeling
  • Reading
  • Drinking

• Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • God
  • Truth
  • Help

• Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Heart
  • Small
  • Gratitude

• 'You guys have a death list?' Ronan broke in. 'That is fucking dark. Am I on it?''Some days, I wish,' Blue said.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Death
  • Wish
  • Dark

• The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Death
  • Growth
  • Maturity