Evensong Book Quotes

#1. A good model of how to 'work with the enemy' internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

Alice Walker

#2. We won't be different for different's sake. Different is easy ... make it pink and fluffy! Better is harder. Making something different often has a marketing and corporate agenda.

Jonathan Ive

#3. I don't write letters anymore.

George H. W. Bush

#4. And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.

Milos Forman

#5. -and when it was over they wished it was going to begin again.

C.S. Lewis

#6. We try to bargain with God ... I will follow you but don't touch my children, or my husband, don't give me cancer ... We are afraid our surrender to God will unleash evil. But evil will come, because evil will come. We live in a broken world.

Kay Warren

#7. Food is a costly antidepressant.

Michael Pollan

#8. Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

Pope Paul VI

#9. Aerow creates a drawn out sense of pressure with the use of rather simplistic. Quite frankly, [the music] is fantastic.

Sean Slade

#10. I've got a lot of issues. I've got a whole lot of daddy issues.

Derek Mears

#11. I had given her a reassuring smile and patted her hand and told her not to worry, I wouldn't do anything stupid. It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.

Barack Obama