Intertestamental History Quotes

#1. No one finds war. War finds them

Trotsky

#2. Integrating the fullness of the human condition into one's spiritual practice is what leads to emotional sobriety.

Ingrid Mathieu

#3. Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Truman Capote

#4. 'What would Jesus do?' or 'What would He have me do?' are the paramount personal questions of this life.

Ezra Taft Benson

#5. [T]his need for excitement of the will manifests itself very specially in the discovery and support of card-playing, which is quite peculiarly the expression of the miserable side of humanity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#6. I do utterly despise dailiness as it stands. I can't abide what the world has become, the frozen-ness of our product this evil thing that we kiss the ass of every hour. I want a dailiness that is free and beautiful

Alice Notley

#7. I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows,
waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home
and stuff me so full of our infected child
that I turn invisible, but married,
at last.

Anne Sexton

#8. God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.

Jose Rizal

#9. I want to make my contribution to humanity so that there will be no more Auschwitzes. Children who are born wanted and are given love and attention will not build concentration camps.

Henry Morgentaler

#10. In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.

Owen Barfield

#11. It's getting the right person that's the challenge.

Bob Schieffer

#12. I think you made your opinion clear already. Go home, Eden. And don't worry. I won't bother you anymore." He unlaced his arms and turned away to pick up a new log. "But I want you to bother me!

Karen Witemeyer

#13. The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Oscar Wilde

#14. I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain.

Arthur Fry