Approvable Quotes

#1. A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Seamus Heaney

#2. You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

Annika Sorenstam

#3. There's no more important mission, because it's folly to think that we can doom wildlife to oblivion and believe humans will be just fine. That's a world I hope to never lay eyes upon.

Joel Sartore

#4. If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics.

Charles E. Merrill

#5. Prayer and action ... can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

Henri Nouwen

#6. To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.

Ole Hallesby

#7. Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Margaret Atwood

#8. When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.

Maurice Gibb

#9. I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they became modern-day Catholics or Jews than that they became Muslims.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#10. Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.

Bill Griffith