Andering Quotes

#1. [W]andering creates the desert.

Edmond Jabes

#2. Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is the one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped or shaped towards, in the individual, and in the race.

James Agee

#3. We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.

Robyn Schneider

#4. Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.

Calvin Ayre

#5. I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

Edmund White

#6. If we are to pray well, we too must discover the Lord to whom we speak, and if we use the Psalms in our prayer we will stand a better chance of sharing in the discovery which lies hidden in their words for all generations. For God has willed to make Himself known to us in the mystery of the Psalms.

Thomas Merton

#7. Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Francis Collins

#8. I wonder if, even after all of this, he understands how fragile good things are in my hands and how many times they've been taken away from me.

Courtney Summers