Ivanna Benesova Quotes

#1. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth
we call it life.

Anne Carson

#2. There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

Carl Sagan

#3. Words can't describe... shouldn't be in a writer's vocabulary.

Mary M. Forbes

#4. In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!

James Blish

#5. If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.

Bill Vaughan

#6. Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?

Mary Oliver

#7. No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

Charles Francis Richter

#8. ELECTION (Gk. eklog, "choice," a "picking out"). Bible Meaning. This word in the Scriptures has three distinct applications. (1) To the divine choice of nations or communities for the possession of special

Merrill F. Unger

#9. We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

Kofi Annan

#10. The crowds were just crying out, "Crucify him, crucify him" with unified rage and intent. And in the backdrop of this rejection of the Son of God, the New Testament Church was beginning to form and write letters to encourage each other in the faith.

Greg Gordon

#11. The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago.

Timothy Noah

#12. If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

James A. Baldwin

#13. A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.

Ann Petry

#14. The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

Eugene O'Neill