It Is In Things. Quotes
We strive for a world where every earthling has the right to live and grow. That's why we don't eat animals.
But after dealing with Roy for a while I just wanted to get through the time I’d signed on for, to prove to myself that I couldn’t be beaten by a girly-faced, chicken-boned, racist cat.
Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.
Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.
On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.
It's fine to decide not to decide about something. You just need a decide-not-to-decide system to get it off your mind
At any point in time, the first thing to consider is, what could you possibly do, where you are, with the tools you have?
To sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.
It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody things you are wrong.
It is an economic fact that predicting the future is most valuable when everybody thinks you are wrong
It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.
I couldn't say, "I lost the best thing that ever happened to me." Wasn't that punishment enough?
It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight, that may have been a poor choice of phrasing.
There are some secrets so toxic you can’t share. Especially if you love who it is you’d have to share with.
We are besieged by simple problems.... Checklists can provide protection
There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.
When you don't have your work clearly defined, there can never be any finish point.
The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence...
. . . there was a softness to Cash’s gaze that made her want to lean into it. It felt like being stroked with a paintbrush, all the way down her body, leaving everything tingling in its wake.
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.
Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.
The sound of natural things was wonderful to us. In the middle of all the suffering, it seemed pure, untouched.
...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.
You don't have to be a good person to feel like a good person, though. There's a loophole I found where I don't do good, helpful things, but I keep myself in a perpetual state of thinking I might.
My feelings remain the same for you, but you chose to walk away...
It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed - not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else's.
Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleasantness of dwelling together in unity
The media's job is not to inform you
Only he who is free with his time is free with his opinion.
I had two speeds, which often varied with my blood alcohol level: fine with whatever, and never, ever satisfied. Where was the balance between these two?
It wasn't fair that my friends could stay at Captain Morgan's pirate ship party while I was drop-kicked into a basement with homeless people chanting the Serenity Prayer.
If you let all the bad thing in life stop you
At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.
Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road.
We're better than Galileo. Because he's dead.
Superficial efficiency seems cheaper at first, but it costs more the long run, with the cost being pushed off onto someone other than the one who saves a few bucks.
It may seem a simple pleasure to spoil our children with a treat of sugar, but that pleasure becomes a sin when the sugar was grown by human beings held in unspeakable misery.
I was sixteen, and I honestly believed I was due a love story.
I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?
When our eyes made contact it was like being slapped, I just wanted to recoil