"The world is like a dropped pie most of the time. Don't kill yourself trying to put it back together. Just grab a fork and eat some of it off the floor. Then carry on."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

#Pie Quotes #Trying Quotes #Together Quotes

“Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad.”

Source : Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers
“Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.”
“Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit?”
“All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.”
“It doesn't do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to say that as a matter of history the development of doctrine has been largely a reaction on the Church's part to the attacks of heresy.”

Source : Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1963). “University and Anglican sermons of Ronald A. Knox: together with sermons preached on various occasions”
“I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It's become incredibly difficult. In North America, we've largely forgotten how to do it.”
“Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing the essence.”
“The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.”

Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Root, the Rod and the Flower”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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