Instrumentally Valuable Quotes

#1. Why would we ever be surprised when truth turns up in strange places?

Rob Bell

#2. When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Mike Tyson

#3. You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and you could come out with your head on a little straighter. I don't why stories worked that way, but they did.

Deb Caletti

#4. I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

Mariano Rivera

#5. I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the building houses is an earthquake. This thinking must surely come into the poems I write, but more by osmosis than will.

Jane Hirshfield

#6. What's your name? Or is that taboo?--Cinnamon, Hot, Deadly Desire

Judy H.

#7. At a time when many Muslims in this country are living in fear, I want to say loud and clear that as a Christian leader I deeply respect your faith and believe that our common duty is to extend the hand of friendship, and to build bridges not walls.

George Carey

#8. Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger.

Paul Bloom

#9. I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.

Aaron Paul