"To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed favoritism of the almighty. A really decent god-believer, far from giving thanks for the food and good health and fortune enjoyed by himself and his family and close friends, would surely curse God for his neglect of the hungry, the sick and the tormented, throughout the world."

-- Barbara Smoker

#Selfish Quotes #Knowing Quotes #People Quotes

“Reading (...) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.”
“I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.”
“More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.”
“I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan of the forest vanquished.”
“It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?”
“It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha male right there.”
“I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that I've always done 'less is more.'”

Source : Ricardo Daza, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (2000). “Looking for Mies”, Birkhauser
“Today, Musana is a thriving orphanage in Iganga, Uganda, housing over one hundred children! When asked what it was that made her fight for these children she simply said, â€œI just kept thinking, â€˜If I donâ€™t do something, who will?' Today, so many of us Christians talk so much about being the hands and feet of Christ, but never really displaying what that looks like. Itâ€™s not about talking. Itâ€™s about doing! Itâ€™s time for us to do something!”

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