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“If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.”
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“Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.”
Source : "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.
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“Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor by dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.”
Source : "The Fire of Love".
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“We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE”
Source : Deena Metzger (1981). “The woman who slept with men to take the war out of them ; & Tree”
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“I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.”
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“Remember the cliche: ... "Cameras don't take pictures, people take pictures."”
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“There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.”
Source : O Pioneers! pt. 2, ch. 4 (1913)
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“Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..." He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow. "You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich. "You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?" "Even now," the woman says firmly.”