Eudora Welty Quotes

The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

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• We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Change

• All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Done
  • Best
  • Try

• I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Better
  • Saturday
  • Dinner

• I am overwhelmed with gratitude, and my heart is full. 'American Sniper' has broken records, which follows such an honest path of Chris's life.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Heart
  • American

• When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Family
  • Money
  • Society

• In a conflict of loyalty, obey Jesus at all costs.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Jesus
  • Conflict
  • Loyalty

• A forecast about the future evolution of policy, not an unconditional commitment.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Future
  • Commitment
  • Evolution

• When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Black
  • Evil

• Lord Aberdeen was quite touched when I told him I was so attached to the dear, dear Highlands and missed the fine hills so much. There is a great peculiarity about the Highlands and Highlanders; and they are such a chivalrous, fine, active people.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • People
  • Great

• Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Great
  • Heart

• Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Fear
  • Born
  • Love Is

• The only way I'd need a pain reliever to enjoy sex is if all of my fantasies came true at the same time.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Time
  • True
  • Pain

• Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relatively cheap.

  

  Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan
  • Good
  • War
  • Science

• The nature of things is to have no nature; it is their non-nature that is their nature. For they have only one nature: no-nature.

  

  Nagarjun
  • Nature

• The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the 'doers of the word' in faith and love, and not the 'mere hearers,' who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Love
  • Faith
  • Works

• This is catch, photo and release. It couldn't be easier.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Release
  • Catch
  • Photo

• I'm really excited to be a part of the 'Fallen Heroes' EP.

  

  Alissa White-Gluz The Agonist
  • Part
  • Excited
  • Fallen Heroes

• The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Insight
  • Labels