Dan Carney Quotes

#1. How could a person be clumsy, just standing? And yet she felt she was, as clumsy as one of those blocks of boxwood being seasoned there, unshaped, indelicate.

Margo Lanagan

#2. But in order to be strong, you have to love yourself, and in order to love yourself, you need thorough self-knowledge, you need to know everything about yourself, including your most hidden secrets, the ones most difficult to accept.

Susanna Tamaro

#3. I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. The Keystone XL pipeline is a threat to our nation. It would increase pollution and intensify climate change for generations to come. We must raise our voices and demand our leaders reject this dirty scheme.

Frances Beinecke

#5. Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. Never throw fruit at someone who understands the theatrics of the situation better than you do.

David Denby

#7. You hurt and have sharp desire,
yet your presence is a healing calm.

Rumi

#8. We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness ... It's an interesting sort of impatience.

Seth Godin

#9. A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.

Jay London

#10. In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#11. You don't know how to lie. If you can't lie, you'll never go anywhere.

Richard M. Nixon