Crushable Straw Quotes

#1. In replacing religion as the final source of knowledge in popular estimation, science begins to look a bit like another religion itself.

Dalai Lama XIV

#2. When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.

Nadine Gordimer

#3. The more people know, the more people share. The more people improve the quality of their lives, the more they'll talk to other people about it, and then they'll help each other.

Louise Hay

#4. I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

Haley Barbour

#5. One day you will marry your best friend, love will be real to you, and you will be on your journey to forever.

Pierre Alex Jeanty

#6. Carol looked at her. "How do you become a poet?"
"By feeling things - too much, I suppose," Therese answered conscientiously.

Patricia Highsmith

#7. You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.

Orson Scott Card

#8. he began frantically writing invisible letters in the air.

Michael Devaney

#9. I'm sorry, I guess my company leaves a lot to be desired.

Nicholas Sparks

#10. [T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one.

Pascal Boyer

#11. Ray was looking extra Oompa-Loompa-like this morning with his fake tan a seemingly brighter shade of orange than usual. His brown hair matched his personality - slick and greasy. "Morning,

Ann Charles

#12. In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence,

Jamsetji Tata

#13. Simplicity of living, if deliberately chosen, implies a compassionate approach to life. It means that we are choosing to live our daily lives with some degree of conscious appreciation of the condition of the rest of the world.

Duane Elgin

#14. In other words, the claim I believe in God is nothing but a lie if it is not manifest in our lives, because one only believes in God insofar as one loves.

Peter Rollins

#15. You've marked me. Not just my heart with your love or my mind with your words, but more so my soul with everything you are. Everything you aspire to be. And everything you think we can be together.

K. Bromberg