Ember Dare Quotes

#1. Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and cannot be subjected to rational explanation.

Robert Moss

#2. And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

John Green

#3. I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

Mark Kennedy

#4. Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.

Rachel Kushner

#5. No ray of sunshine is ever lost but the green that it awakens takes time to sprout, and it is not always given the sower to see the harvest.

Albert Schweitzer

#6. What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.

H.L. Mencken

#7. we should look beyond our noses;

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#8. The deader the ball, the better it suited her purpose, which was to whack the shit out of it until she was physically exhausted. She thought this was quite possibly the most satisfying thing she'd ever done.

Jonathan Franzen

#9. There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of their world because the karma is inevitable. They have to destroy themselves.

Frederick Lenz

#10. If somebody believes that a certain practice will get them to heaven, and then other people believe a different way of doing it, I think it's their choice.

Jane Seymour

#11. If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

Al Goldstein

#12. The greatest leaders are reluctant ones who lead because they realize that no one else seems willing to step up.

Orrin Woodward

#13. Time does not care how precious it is, how hard you are working not to squander it. Time passes.

Melissa Kantor

#14. Walmart isn't your average mom-and-pop operation. It's the largest employer in America. As such, it's the trendsetter for millions of other employers of low-wage workers.

Robert Reich