Rebecca Solnit Quotes

The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

Rebecca Solnit

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• Christianity is a battle not a dream.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Dream
  • Battle
  • Christianity

• I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • American
  • Church

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • First
  • Will
  • Direction

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Relationship
  • Friend
  • Speak

• I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Stuff
  • Designer
  • Expensive

• Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Happy
  • Stick
  • Needle

• Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say and what you think.

  

  Umar
  • Thinking
  • Trust
  • Differences

• I am a geek nerd who happened to have a temporary period of jockiness.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Period
  • Nerd
  • Jockiness

• Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.

  

  C. J. Anderson
  • Sin
  • Sickness
  • Delusional

• Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wonder
  • Experiences
  • Horrible

• God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • God
  • Living
  • Standard

• Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Done
  • Dream
  • Poor

• I venture to say that every man who is not presumably incapacitated by some consideration of personal unfitness or of political danger is morally entitled to come within the pale of the Constitution.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Men
  • Political
  • Constitution

• Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.

  

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
  • Business
  • Remember
  • Deserve

• What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Darkness
  • Circles
  • Chasing

• I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • People
  • Needs
  • Ammo

• Character has more effect than anything else. Let a number of loud-talking men take up a particular question, and one man of character, of known integrity and beauty of soul, will outweigh them all in his influence.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Question

• So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising

  

  Saul Perlmutter
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Helping

• The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Darkness
  • Awakening
  • Makers