"History belongs to the intercessors, who believe the future into being. If this is so, then intercession, far from being an escape from action, is a means of focusing for action and of creating action. By means of our intercessions we veritably cast fire upon the earth and trumpet the future into being."

-- Walter Wink

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Creating Quotes

“I've realized skinny isn't necessarily attractive. Guys like girls with curves.”
“Children who are brought up with one parent or another parent or shared parenthood, when there has been a divorce and hatred within families, it breeds a tremendous amount of instability in the life of a child. And many of these children end up in the homosexual movement. Even if they don't, they take so much baggage into their marriages, that they are unable sometimes, at least theoretically unable, to stand against all of the cultural forces that would disrupt them and their families.”
“It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.”
“Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.”

Source : "Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author".
“Skating is what got me into punk rock.”

Source : "Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio and Blink-182 on staying young through BMX". Interview with David Anthony, music.avclub.com. May 27, 2015.
“I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.”
“Far more people die in the developing world than in the West. At religious festivals mainly. That's not a myth - the numbers don't lie. I think it's just because in the West crowds tend to be manufactured by commercial interesting, and they have, or at least should have, a responsibility for keeping people safe.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: John Seabrook on Crowds". live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2011.
“I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.”

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