Towpath Quotes

#1. Priests were illegal, saying the mass was illegal, all banned by the Revolution.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. Story has staying power. We remember the illustrations from Sunday's sermon for months afterward, but by coffee hour we're already struggling to recite the pastor's three main points, despite various acronyms meant to help us.

Sarah Arthur

#3. Just a bullet a bag and a dream that's all I had now look at what I got

Saira Viola

#4. There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

George Orwell

#5. Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.

Gaston Bachelard

#6. In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

Diogenes Of Sinope

#8. While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.

Sam Harris

#9. Your problem is that you have been too honest for too long. Once you start doing it, lying is simpler than breathing.

Jodi Picoult

#10. That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home.

Deborah Harkness