Above Cruelty Quotes

#1. The lovers of the innocent must protect them above all from the knowledge of their own cruelty.

Mary Renault

#2. Despite our disapproval with what God allows us to endure, he still remains the same God that is not interested in our convenience, as much as our character.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not? If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to?

John Angell James

#4. Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.

Eric Hoffer

#5. I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come from some deep impulse, deep inspiration. That can't be taught, it can't be what you use in teaching.

Robert Lowell

#6. I crave stillness,
And yet I fear the moment
Stillness turns into boredom,
And the moment boredom
Turns into loneliness.

Chris Mc Geown

#7. Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality.

Sathya Sai Baba

#8. The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.

Kenneth Clark

#9. People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

Lynn Samuels

#10. The whole truth is a luxury. In case you are looking for it, a courtroom isn't the place to either start or end the search.

Avirook Sen

#11. He spoke with a raven's voice, old and wise and far above the cruelty of the human race.

Alice Hoffman

#12. Paul Newman is a sex symbol.

Maud Adams

#13. The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

George Clooney

#14. Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

Charles B. Rangel

#15. However you learn and whatever your circumstances, an education that prepares you for the world is every child's right.

Kandyse McClure

#16. We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.

Christopher Hitchens

#17. A hint of annoyance hardened Sicarius's dark eyes, and Books imagined him thinking, I can't leave for five minutes without you getting into trouble ...

Lindsay Buroker

#18. He needed me to make it okay.

Damon Suede

#19. We can stop pleading with God to show us the future, and start living and obeying like we are confident that He holds the future.

Kevin DeYoung

#20. All right, shutting up now,

Tui T. Sutherland

#21. We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#22. Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.

Shannon L. Alder