Harsha Walia Quotes

#1. With all her heart, Mom believed in opportunity for everyone and privilege for no one. She put her children first, and her faith and trust in the American dream.

Ralph Webster

#2. As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Spirit's way of drawing us to more and more holiness.

Jerry Bridges

#3. It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don't have to do a thing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#4. You have no idea how hard it is to grieve and fall madly in love at the same time.

Didi

#5. We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything.

Joe Meno

#6. Butterflies have always had wings; people have always had legs. While history is marked by the hybridity of human societies & the desire for movement, the reality of most of migration today reveals the unequal relations between rich & poor, between North and South, between whiteness and its others.

Harsha Walia

#7. In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

Eliza Griswold

#8. The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".

Anatol Rapoport

#9. I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.

Robert Kirkman

#10. Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for theirs.

Stanley Schmidt

#11. Farewell, beautiful
lilies, elegant in your painted little sanctuaries, good-bye, lovely lilies, our pride and reason for
existing, good-bye you bastards!

Jean-Paul Sartre

#12. I've fallen back on this periodically, although I must say that getting out of the grocery business ranked right up there with getting out of the army as one of the happier experiences of my life.

David Eddings

#13. Glum. It meant having the blues in a way that annoyed other people. Having the blues aggressively.

Gillian Flynn

#14. I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block)

Lisi Harrison

#15. The only reaction that frightens me is people not laughing. It's extraordinary to me when you get a laugh. That you can go in front of a bunch of people you never met before, you can say some stuff and they all laugh in unison - that's amazing. It's a miracle.

Chris Rock