Batteau Festival Quotes

#1. conversing, in low tones, with the asylum librarian, an alumna

Sylvia Plath

#2. Come here, I shall bless you within nonduality;

Thupten Jinpa

#3. The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.

Renee Fleming

#4. I'll always be waiting in the wings Bella

Stephenie Meyer

#5. One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Randy Pausch

#6. It's only a game. It only resolves tiny, insignificant things. Such as who gets validation. Who gets listened to. It allocates power and draws boundaries and turns some people into stars and others into spectators. That's all.

Fredrik Backman

#7. Burning is no answer.

Camille Desmoulins

#8. Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Socialism and communism fall of their own weight because, as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people's money. Because socialized medicine never falls of its own weight because you put people on lists, and they die waiting to get the treatment and care. So you don't go broke.

Louie Gohmert

#10. Aye, then. Come and dance with the Ech'lon. You can be me bloody retinue. King o' Fools and 'is merry band o' jesters. If they don't laugh us out o' the tower, it'll be a bleedin' miracle.

Bec McMaster

#11. Atheist isn't really the right word because they tended to believe in some sort of Enlightenment, capital 'N' Nature kind of god. But these were people who in their times were criticized as infidels.

Christine Jennings