Quotes
Authors
Michael Cunningham
"I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one story, over and over. Like most children, they believe in an easily identifiable good and evil, and like most children, they are capable of unthinkable cruelty." --
Michael Cunningham
#Children Quotes
#Believe Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
“Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.”
“When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.”
“Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.”
Source : 'Fame is a Food' (1906)
“There are, in truth, but two denominations upon this earth: the Church and the world.”
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.”
“It is a crucial time to be mindful of our thoughts.”
“For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine--what is all that, in front of the blaze of the wrath to come?”
“It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a large glowing object hovering in the darkening Arizona sky. But when I made that fateful choice to leavethe truck, I was leaving behind more than just my six fellow workmen. I was leaving behind forever all semblance of a normal life, running headlong toward an experience so overwhelmingly mind-rending in its effects, so devastating in itsaftermath, that my life would never—could never  — be the same again.”