Brian D. McLaren Quotes
Schoolchildren don’t normally learn this poem about Columbus’s second voyage to Hispaniola Haiti and the Dominican Republic today: “In fourteen hundred and ninety-five, sixteen hundred people he kidnapped alive.
Brian D. McLaren
Quotes to Explore
I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.
Lisa Kudrow
When I was training for the Chicago Marathon, I would eat a cup of cereal after an 18-mile long run, and then I'd have to get out the door with nothing but a granola bar in my hand. I can't change my busy schedule with my kids, but I can work harder to improve in this area. I think it's a part of training that most of us find difficult.
Summer Sanders
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
Robert Frost
Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.
Salvador Dali
Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good ol' days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown So I've started out for God knows where I guess I'll know when I get there I'm learning to fly around the clouds But what goes up must come down
Tom Petty
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.
Thomas Aquinas
People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.
Elliot Aronson
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.
Robert W. Service
I think that what happened is that we grew up with the Holocaust within us. It turned us into harsh, emotionally incapable people who have become blind to what they are doing to other people. A lot of times, Holocaust abuse justifies terrible things done to the Palestinians. And you have to realize that what is going on is terrible, and that we are responsible, and we have to take responsibility - even if we are not completely responsible.
Eytan Fox
I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.
Suzan-Lori Parks
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
Allen Tate
But my research had taught me that the tissue of contradictions that was my personality was itself, at best, a poem, where “poem” is understood as referring to a failure of language to be equal to the possibilities it figures; only then could my fraudulence be a project and not merely a pathology; only then could my distance from myself be redescribed as critical, aesthetic, as opposed to a side effect of what experts might call my substance problem, felicitous phrase, the origins of which lay not in my desire to evade reality, but in my desire to have a chemical excuse for reality’s unavailability.
Ben Lerner
