Pg 25 Quotes

#1. People like to have something to turn down, though. They want to be able to say no to some things, because it makes their yes more meaningful. (pg. 25)

Deb Caletti

#2. Emily Dickinson once wrote, 'hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,' and she was right, but she forgot to mention that despair is the thing with claws that tears out your heart. Kind of a major oversight there, Em." pg. 25

Suzanne Sullivan

#3. At that moment he was unconscious of everything except his fear. He did not even know what he was afraid of: the fear itself possessed his whole mind, a formless, infinite misgiving. pg. 25

C.S. Lewis

#4. Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25

Chris Ware

#5. Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head. -pg. 25

Edwidge Danticat

#6. The purpose of Christian education is not academic: it is religious and practical.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#7. Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Jorge Luis Borges

#8. It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.

Michael Pollan

#9. When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.

Katarina Witt

#10. I've been running like this since I was seven.

Adrian Peterson

#11. Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace

Rumi

#12. This is a Southern gift, isn't it - tremendous self-regard diluted with humor and modesty. That's what they mean by Southern charm, right?

Michael Cunningham

#13. I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.

Andrew Bird

#14. As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.

Wendy Kopp

#15. The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16. It's music as wallpaper, utilitarian, music as Prozac or Xanax to control how you feel. Music as aerosol room freshener.

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. Everything an artist spits is art.

Kurt Schwitters

#18. Hell, a fifty-dollar vibrator could do his job, and I wouldn't have to listen to its bullshit.

Kendall Ryan

#19. Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.

Josemaria Escriva

#20. I thank Thee, O Lord, that Thou hast so set eternity within my heart that no earthly thing can ever satisfy me wholly.

John Baillie

#21. As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

Alexander Payne