Ecrable Quotes

#1. To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.

Sulak Sivaraksa

#3. To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

Nathaniel Branden

#4. I am he that walks with the tender and growing night; I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night. Press close barebosomed night! Press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! Night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! Mad naked summer night! Smile

Walt Whitman

#5. We are traumatized people. And nothing else has trauma's power to deform the mind and heart.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

Fulton J. Sheen

#7. CHAPTER 8 Thank-You Notes (Part 1)

Jen Hatmaker

#8. I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that was no longer spoken. I believe that all the little good I got from years of classical studies I could have got in adult life in a month.

Bertrand Russell

#9. A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.

Ammon Hennacy

#10. I wish I could make you like death a little more. It's a great preserver. Without it the loveliest things change slowly into face, as you will discover if you insist on having much more life.

Alasdair Gray

#11. I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

N. T. Wright

#12. Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

Hal Rothman