Attenuating Circumstance Quotes

#1. I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?

Shane Claiborne

#2. Fenway seats just over thirty-seven thousand, about the same number of people as have Huntington's in the United States. Thirty-seven thousand. It's a faceless number,

Lisa Genova

#3. Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will.

Rebecca Romijn

#4. Without commitment, no price will be low enough. With commitment, no price will be too high.

Ron Kaufman

#5. If a self-organizing system becomes too static, it runs down; if it becomes too chaotic, it breaks apart.

Danah Zohar

#6. The weaknesses of the wise are better than the strengths of fools.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity'
of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The subject,' says one handbook for amateur photographers, 'must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity.

Roland Barthes

#8. If there is something you choose to experience in your life, do not "want" it-choose it.

Neale Donald Walsch

#9. Events cast their shadows ahead; before a harsh winter, wild animals grow thicker fur, and the beaver puts on a thicker layer of fat. What kind of times and what sort of tasks can lie ahead for a generation that must think so harshly, even at such a young age, in order to survive?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#10. When I'm not working, I spend a lot of time on my hair. When it's time for my hair to get some rest, I either wear it in a ponytail, bun or my favorite 'milkmaid' braid.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#11. I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.

Christy Turlington

#12. These days, students struggle with conversation. What makes sense is to engage them in it. The more you think about educational technology, with all its bells and whistles, the more you circle back to the simple power of conversation.

Sherry Turkle

#13. Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.

Imtiaz Ali