Top 20 Scott Russell Sanders Quotes
#1. What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious.
Scott Russell Sanders
#2. They were wrong, he thought. She is better than Garbo.
Suzanne Stroh
#4. Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.
Kendrick Lamar
#6. If we are ever going to dwell in the house of the Lord, I believe, we do so now. If any house is divinely made, it is this one here, this great whirling mansion of planets and stars.
Scott Russell Sanders
#7. I understand Mother's need, whatever she might say on the phone, what she really wants is to hear, before she closes her eyes, the voice of someone who loves her. Love is at last, our only rejoinder to darkness.
Scott Russell Sanders
#8. The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul Gauguin
#9. God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#10. Nothing from the summer carries more lasting allure for me than the memory of sitting with Ruth on the bank of a stream on campus, taking turns reading aloud from the books we held on our laps, while the wind wet leaves gossiping in the old trees above us and the creek rustled in its stony bed.
Scott Russell Sanders
#11. People have times when they want to go through different looks.
Amar'e Stoudemire
#12. I sometimes wonder if all other animals, all plants, maybe even stars and rivers and rocks, dwell in steady awareness of God, while humans alone, afflicted with self-consciousness, imagine ourselves apart.
Scott Russell Sanders
#13. Striving to convey to this beloved audience of one what was going on around me during those five years, I learned the power of language to map a life, to overcome a distance, to focus attention on what matters most.
Scott Russell Sanders
#14. He makes me weak and vulnerable and absolutely perfect in all of my flaws. Like a human.
Sarah Noffke
#15. That was what it meant to be loved
there were people who would never give up looking and longing for you, no matter how far you wandered lost.
Scott Russell Sanders
#16. Life is precarious and improbable, a flame in matter, easily snuffed out. Nature shows no regard for the individual spark, in this creature or that, but only for the spreading of the fire, like an ember passed from cell to cell.
Scott Russell Sanders
#17. All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.
W. H. Auden
#18. You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.
Courtney Thorne-Smith
#19. What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.
Scott Russell Sanders
#20. Even the disciples, who at times could be dense as bricks, realized that the true neighbor was the one who showed mercy to a stranger.
Scott Russell Sanders
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