Beared Weight Quotes

#1. The very fact that a holy, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful, merciful, fair, and just God loves you and me is nothing short of astonishing.

Francis Chan

#2. The idea that the right way of valuing goods and social practices depends on the purposes and ends those practices serve.

Michael J. Sandel

#3. I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important. There's something a little freeing about it.

Lorene Scafaria

#4. Spending on programs such as national defense and funding the operating budgets of all federal agencies represent only 39 percent of our yearly budget, an all-time low.

Paul Gillmor

#5. I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. He had never felt so ashamed in his life; he had never imagined that he could behave so cruelly. He wondered how a boy who thought he was a good person really could act in such a cowardly way towards a friend.

John Boyne

#7. Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,
And what is invisible stays that way.

Mark Strand

#8. He had never been involved with the mentally ill before, but he now felt more than ever that there should be strong international laws against them being too good-looking.

Lorrie Moore