Unsettling Of America Quotes

#1. We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them.
(pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America")

Wendell Berry

#2. The willingness to abuse other bodies is the willingness to abuse one's own. To damage the earth is to damage your children. To despise the ground is to despise its fruit; to despise the fruit is to despise its eaters. The wholeness of health is broken by despite (The Unsettling of America).

Wendell Berry

#3. I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised.

Sylvia Kristel

#4. The most effective missionsries always act out of love

Dallin H. Oaks

#5. Open source is important to our orgs as a talent pool; we need better representation of women.

Jane Silber

#6. Most of the time when you see a movie, the best character in the movie is not "the guy," it's the guy next to the guy.

Anthony Mackie

#7. W. Kamau Bell is in the vanguard of a new era of American comedy for an unsettling, troubling, and strangely hopeful time. Firmly in the fearless tradition of Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, & Chris Rock. Comedy as common sense purged of the absurd hypocrisy that is Our America.

Vernon Reid

#8. Cycling, like masturbation, is fun and easy to do - sometimes all day long.

Tom Doig

#9. The Wizard was from a place called America, and to him, a female ruler was a strange and unsettling notion.

Danielle Paige

#10. The only way to find out where I was was to get out of the way and let myself happen.

Mark Epstein

#11. As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

John Green

#12. All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

David Ives

#13. When asked about how he could have offered the Warren Report, full of inconsistencies, to the American people with a straight face, Dulles is reported to have said, "The American people don't read.

Michael C. Ruppert

#14. And a long time," he said. "I am a jealous man, but not a vengeful one. I would take you from him, my Sassenach - but I wouldna take him from you.

Diana Gabaldon

#15. Imperfection would get me farther than perfection.

Richelle Mead