Happenstance Approach Quotes

#1. Everyone likes ice cream," he said, white with rage. The mask of patience was slipping, and I don't know how I managed to hold back my tears. "Everyone except you, son, because you're a moron.

Cesar Aira

#2. I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.

Rachel Kushner

#3. I have not conquered Everest, it has merely tolerated me

Peter Habeler

#4. Everyone knows that when you look at a television ad, you do not expect to get information. You expect to see delusion and imagery.

Noam Chomsky

#5. my own name. Do you know what Queen Elizabeth wrote after 9/11? "Grief is the price we pay for love.

Heidi Joy Tretheway

#6. When we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to leave us defenseless.

Jonathan Gottschall

#7. The question is not 'Am I a leader?' - the question is 'What kind of leader am I?

Steve Knox

#8. That's the kind of face you had - the kind that directed the world and made it beautiful.

Philip Beard

#9. Our identity as Christians is a purpose-driven life

Sunday Adelaja