Unalarmingly Quotes

#1. Everything I have is dirty, but I'm sure I can figure something. Maybe I can make a dress out of a garbage bag. Lady Gaga wore that meat dress to the VMA's, so I should be able to dress in a garbage bag. I'll get black ones, to symbolize my current state of mind. Like performance art of something.

Lauren Barnholdt

#2. In case after case in the past, there is a kind of Bible-quoting intoxication under the influence of which we religious people lose the ability to distinguish between what God says and what we say God says.

Brian D. McLaren

#3. Although when there were too many people around- which there certainly were today- it was hard even to remember to say thank you: all those people were like drowning.

Robin McKinley

#4. I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.
I will make a palace fit for you and me
Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#5. Rosaleen was a nuisance. Her children thought she was a nuisance because it was true. She was. A Nuisance.
Rosalene was a nightmare. She was very difficult. She was incrasingly difficult. She made her children cry.

Anne Enright

#6. It's what you do right now that makes a difference.

Mark Bowden

#7. Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

Shusaku Endo

#8. DON'T CALL ME COWARD!

J.K. Rowling

#9. You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and this is the time to go home and seek a new challenge.

Jerry Kleczka

#10. the Triple Win": Money, Meaning, and Mobility.

Julia Pimsleur

#11. That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.

Carrie Jones

#12. Like all parents, they were just doing their best from moment to moment.

Deborah Harkness

#13. Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.

George Gaylord Simpson

#14. Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.

Jonas Gahr Store

#15. A man is born gentle and weak. At death, he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At death, they are withered and dry. Therefore, the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death, and the gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.

Laozi