Unnerstan Quotes

#1. The best break anybody ever gets is in bein' alive in the first place. An' you don't unnerstan' what a perfect deal it is until you realizes that you ain't gone be stuck with it forever, either.

Walt Kelly

#2. I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.

Mona Hatoum

#3. Her social position at Safeway was better than it was at home.

Nell Zink

#4. We are helping the people that [George W.]Bush says are evil. Teheran couldn't be happier about the high oil prices resulting from the Iraq war.

Joseph Stiglitz

#5. The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.

Roland Barthes

#6. Against Amerigo Vespucci no such charges of immorality, cruelty, and bigotry can be brought as against Columbus, and the sole accusation against him, of falsifying the date of his "first" voyage, has not been sustained by the evidence.

Frederick A. Ober

#7. I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Ernest Gaines

#8. Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They've failed because they've been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.

Billy Graham

#9. I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.

Virginia Woolf

#10. There's so much to write. Where should I start?
I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:
'You should start where you are

Ruth Ozeki

#11. When a country goes mad, it has the right to commit every horror in its own wall

Emmuska Orczy

#12. Perhaps we know only by comparing, by drawing distinctions from and similarities to what we already know. But when we use our terms of comparison to shut off any understanding of our connections with one another as human beings, we risk becoming something less than human ourselves. (7)

Martha Minow

#13. Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters.

Brian McNaughton