Bonnie Lee Bakley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • [The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.

  • Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

  • I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

  • Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

  • A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

  • The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.

  • When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.

  • I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

  • I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.

  • Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

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