Stretton Quotes

#1. Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first.

Wallace Stegner

#2. We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.

Ming-Dao Deng

#3. The sins of good men are greater than the sins of bad men. One lie from a truthful man is more hurtful than all the lies of a liar. The sins of a man after God's own heart have done more harm than all the crimes of all the Pagan emperors.

Hesba Stretton

#4. Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.

Gil Fronsdal

#5. Things are precious when they're hard to come by.

Lauren Kate

#6. If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

John Adams

#7. We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.

Indira Gandhi

#8. The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

Pope Gregory I

#9. She's disoriented, her visions cluttered, random memories running adrift in her mind.

Mary Kubica

#10. Her correspondence had been like the pumping of a heart into a severed artery, wild and incessant at first, then slowing down with a kind of muscular reluctance to a stream that became a trickle and finally ceased; the heart had stopped.

Michael Chabon

#11. People were hanging out in these places, and just like at cocktail parties, they needed something to do together. I thought, 'How can we fit games into someone's life?'

Mark Pincus