Colville Quotes

#1. I know there's life after the Olympics.

Eric Shanteau

#2. Until we learn that other lives are equally grievable and have an equal demand on us to be grieved - especially the ones that we've helped to eliminate - I'm not sure we'll really be on the way to overcoming the problem of dehumanization.

Judith Butler

#3. I won't ever be pulled from your arms, Sebastian, not while you want me in them.

Nicole Colville

#4. But shadows spread, and deepened, and stayed. After thousands of years we're still strangers to darkness, fearful aliens in an enemy camp with our arms crossed over our chests.

Annie Dillard

#5. Heden chose to shut up. He could not remember ever regretting silence.

Matthew Colville

#6. The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not,

Alex Colville

#7. We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without losing our equilibrium.

Richard Chandler

#8. If you will accept every call that comes to you within the Church, you will grow in a remarkable and marvelous and wonderful way. With responsibility comes growth, and the Lord will magnify you and make you equal to every responsibility which is given you.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#9. Loving yourself unconditionally is one of the most precious gifts you can give back to God.

Nancy Rynes

#10. Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.

Zakk Wylde

#11. In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others

Jose Saramago

#12. I don't intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what's going to happen from one day to the next.

Alex Colville

#13. Anxiety is the normality of our age,

Alex Colville

#14. It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

Alex Colville

#15. If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.

Richard Dawkins

#16. I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.

Alex Colville

#17. I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.

Alex Colville

#18. Mom had told me about that - she called it a dangerous light. It's beautiful to look at, but it blinds people, she said, that kind of light. It's not good to be out in it.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#19. Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide.

John Colville

#20. Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book was delayed because the printer ran out of capital I's.

John Colville

#21. Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.

Michael Steinhardt

#22. There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

Walter Lippmann

#23. My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

Alex Colville