Vrdonate Quotes

#1. Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars.

Michael Chabon

#2. People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you work to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personal sacrifice.

Stephen R. Gregg

#3. I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

Chris Martin

#4. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

Carl Sagan

#5. The past only exists in the minds of those who choose to recall it.

Marjorie F. Baldwin

#6. The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

Bryan Stevenson

#7. Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.

Jimi Hendrix

#8. The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence - it is unshakeable

Thomas Merton

#9. Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.

Roger Tory Peterson

#10. "Terrorism" is what we call the violence of the weak, and we condemn it; "war" is what we call the violence of the strong, and we glorify it.

Sydney J. Harris

#11. Tell me, Tengo, as a novelist, what is your definition of reality?" "When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out - that's the real world," Tengo replied.

Haruki Murakami

#12. People have declaimed against luxury for two thousand years, in verse and prose, and people have always delighted in it.

Voltaire

#13. I sang out the words unflinchingly though, as I stomped around the toadstool in clouds of church-basement dust, with a damp Gnome hand clutched in each of mine.

Margaret Atwood

#14. Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever.

Robert M. Pirsig