"A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience."

-- Barbara Deming

#Moving Quotes #Great Men Quotes #Obedience Quotes

“Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the book was written in 1984... It will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute.”
“There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.”
“There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.”

Source : Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.116, Cambridge University Press
“All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.”

Source : 'Mimnermus in Church'
“Just live that life. It doesn't matter whether it is life or hell, life of the hungry ghost, life of the animal, it's okay; just live that life, see. And as a matter of fact no other way. Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.”
“We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve.”

Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.
“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”
“Self awareness allows you to self-correct.”

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