Cholula Shelbyville Quotes

#1. We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

Thomas Merton

#2. Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

Alexandre Dumas

#3. Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

Thomas Friedman

#4. Shall we upon the footing of our land
Send fair-play orders, and make compromise,
Insinuation, parley, and base truce,
To arms invasive?

William Shakespeare

#5. You are provided with hands, but you decide how to employ them. Some use their hands to provide a lover's caress, chisel a sculpture, plant seeds; others use their hands to tighten a noose, pull a gun trigger, turn a prison key on innocent souls.

Joshua Emmet

#6. Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?" "How come?

Hermann Hesse

#7. For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed.

Dan Barber

#8. Glazov...What does it mean, the name you call me--Ptichka?"
"It means: 'Little bird.'"
"And why did you choose that name for me?"
"Because I know if I allowed you, you would fly away.

Suzanne Steele

#9. In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.

Octavio Paz

#10. Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

#11. I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.

Iris Apfel

#12. The ones who say "you can't" and "you won't" are probably the ones that are scared that you will.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#13. If one had sufficient evidence to warrant belief in a particular claim, then one wouldn't believe the claim on the basis of faith. "Faith" is the word one uses when one does not have enough evidence to justify holding a belief, but when one just goes ahead and believes anyway.

Peter Boghossian

#14. That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

John Green