Carol Lynn Pearson Quotes

#1. Thank you, Carol Lynn Pearson, for reminding us that the task of any religion is to teach us whom we're required to love, not whom we're entitled to hate. - Rabbi Harold Kushner

Carol Lynn Pearson

#2. Civilization is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term "we" or "us" and at the same time decreases those labeled "you" or "them" until that category has no one left in it. - Howard Winters (115)

Carol Lynn Pearson

#3. Ah, the ocean. The movement of eternity right in front of us." (61)

Carol Lynn Pearson

#4. I wonder-Did I peek through the veil impatiently, while you slowly forged the bonds that brought me to mortality? And do you now stand where I stodd yesterday, your cheeks against Heaven's curtain, and pray-Pray fervently for me to forge the bonds that bring us to eternity?

Carol Lynn Pearson

#5. There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

Carol Lynn Pearson

#6. You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

Clement Greenberg

#7. On day I noticed that something happened that looked like a dramatization of the inner script of my psyche.

Carol Lynn Pearson

#8. If you hide what you really are, then there's going to be problems in marriage down the road. I don't mind if a girl is aggressive. It's just sex.

Andrew Dice Clay

#9. A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

Abraham Flexner

#10. Jackson is so busy following the rules and doing everything he thinks he's supposed to do that he doesn't really ever live.

Sierra Avalon

#11. That won't do with a girl like Princess. It is too commonplace, too devoid of interest and uncertainty.

Mary Greenway McClelland

#12. There's an old Jewish saying: An enemy is someone whose story you do not know. (22)

Carol Lynn Pearson

#13. Is nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back?

W. Bernard Carlson

#14. I would not have been able to articulate it at that time, but I had begun a painful journey toward an impossible goal, a journey that lasted a long time: how to love a God who hurts you.

Carol Lynn Pearson

#15. Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.

Alice Duer Miller

#16. Practice Makes Perfect
I'll know better next time
Than to even begin;
Everything's easier on the second try
Especially sin.

Carol Lynn Pearson

#17. Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

Carol Lynn Pearson

#18. Anger at happenstance for its absurd timing. Anger at myself for being so angry. I hate being angry and every time I got this angry it made me more angry at the fact that I was so angry. I realized though that I couldn't really be mad at any of those things.

David Bowick

#19. Being treated with politeness, consideration, even respect is different from being treated as an equal.

Carol Lynn Pearson

#20. It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.

Carol Lynn Pearson

#21. "The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've used rivers to cleanse ourselves. And, for me, the lyrics "something in the river," I think is - well, the river is a metaphor for where I was at the time.

Ladyhawke

#22. I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).

George Saunders

#23. When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.

Tina Fey

#24. When the last female dies, the gateway to the earth closes to man.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. To pay no attention to health of body but only that of soul. To plan day on arising and evening examination of conscience. More spiritual reading ... To waste no time. More conscientious about letters, visits, about these records. More charity.

Dorothy Day

#26. The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.

Pierce Brosnan

#27. Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

Nicholas Meyer