"It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog."

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

#Dog Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Missions Quotes

“I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.”
“The State did not originate in any form of social agreement, or with any disinterested view of promoting order and justice. Far otherwise. The State originated in conquest and confiscation, as a device for maintaining the stratification of society permanently into two classes-an owning and exploiting class, relatively small, and a propertyless dependent class. . . . No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose than to enable the continuous economic exploitation of one class by another.”
“Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they canâ€™t quite keep up with gravity.”

Source : Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.298, Pan Macmillan
“Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.”

Source : John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie TuSmith (1998). “Conversations with John Edgar Wideman”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.”
“The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.”
“God never deserts a man, unless He is deserted by that man first. For even if a man shall have committed grievous sins once, twice, and a third time, God still looks for him, "so that he may be converted and live."”
“I would never say no to that [marriage] . It hasn't been my path up to this point. I think it would be nice to look forward to that. Meeting somebody of that caliber of "Yes, I want to spend my life with you." Of course, why not. I love the fact that that is legal in every state.”

Source : Source: chicago.gopride.com

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