Voluntaries Quotes

#1. Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.

John Donne

#2. For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

Alice Walker

#3. The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

Frank Herbert

#4. Ever since the development of the spine, the individual had become paramount, the group disregarded. Ghiselle was only following the downhill path of her species.

Tom Perrotta

#5. Suicide is an extreme vote of no confidence in a society that doesn't work.

Sharif Abdullah

#6. My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera.

Erik Satie

#7. African tech companies must be held to the same standards as companies anywhere else in the world. But we must also be given the same respect. As long as we are treated as valuable partners, we can succeed.

Rebecca Enonchong

#8. Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.

Francis Spufford