Commenter Yelling Quotes

#1. One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Karl Marx

#3. Faith does not speak things into existence. It simply sees what is already in existence, though still unseen to those who live by sight alone.

Steve Deneff

#4. Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them ... you could use them, you could change them.

Terry Pratchett

#5. The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.

Martin Seligman

#6. You have severe mental constipation.

Tahereh Mafi

#7. Ivan and I: the world converging.
Malina and I, since we are one: the world diverging.

Ingeborg Bachmann

#8. Bookmark your dreams, go back and continue where you left them.

Suleman Abdullah

#9. As a breath on glass, -
As witch-fires that burn,
The gods and monsters pass,
Are dust, and return.
("The Face of the Skies")

George Sterling

#10. There are people who carry decency and optimism around with them, who seem to cleanse every atmosphere they settle in, and you can't tell such people things, it is too disruptive.

Alice Munro

#11. For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

Frantz Fanon

#12. I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

Vincent Cassel

#13. Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. There was a profound silence, abruptly broken by an enormously loud rumble from George's stomach. Plaster didn't actually fall from the ceiling, but it was close.

Jonathan Stroud