Sanctums Quotes

#1. A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

Benton MacKaye

#2. Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Zora Neale Hurston

#3. Generally, you're always shooting in the dark with Beyonce. She's just creative and eclectic and up on always trying to be ahead of the game. That was the moment of me trying to figure out how I wanted to give her another moment.

Bryce Wilson

#4. Contrary to what most people think, weeping isn't an uncontrollable emotion that spills into tears. It's the opposite, a channel for feelings, a way to divert them in a healthy direction.

Carsten Jensen

#5. I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.

Kathy Ireland

#6. I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.

Laurie Notaro

#7. Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.

Aldous Huxley

#8. Sometimes, I think I was a child made of that swirling snow, borne of parents who faded into the mountains like ghosts after my birth, never to be seen again.

Moira Katson

#9. During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers and swept by unpredictable violence.

J.G. Ballard

#10. It's hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you've failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.

Lee Strobel

#11. Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.

Sue Monk Kidd

#12. What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

Walter Isaacson

#13. 'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

Chris Cornell

#14. You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.

Frank McCourt

#15. Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes through his movements.

Maria Montessori