"Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us."

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Source : "Speechless" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#Scare Quotes #Comfort Quotes #Vivid Quotes

“Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it tells) bewilders, confounds, defies evil itself; it does so by making what has been unmade; it subverts the spirit of the age; it mends the heart by whispering mysteries the mind alone canâ€™t fathom; it fulfills its highest calling when into all the clamor of Hell it tells the unbearable, beautiful, truth that Christ has died, Christ is risen, and Christ will come again. None of these songs and stories matter if the beauty theyâ€™re adding to isnâ€™t the kind of beauty that redeems and reclaims.”
“The world has no circumference. It would certainly have a circumference if it had a centre, in which case it would contain within itself its own beginning and end; and that would mean that there was some other thing which imposed a limit to the world - another being existing in space outside the world. All of these conclusions are false. Since, then, the world cannot be enclosed within a material circumference and centre, it is unintelligible without God as its centre and circumference.”
“If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.”

Source : C.K. Prahalad (2009). “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Revised and Updated 5th Anniversary Edition: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits”, p.25, FT Press
“More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century. More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any one decade than people were slaughtered in all the genocides of the 20th century. The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day... life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country than in the west. That should be an international scandal.”

Source : "Half The Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide". Book by Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2008.
“I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Every day, I hear a song and I think, This would be great to cover on Glee. I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.”

Source : "Mark Salling Has A 'Type' (And Her Name is Santana)". Interview with Casey Lewis, www.clevver.com. October 13, 2010.
“Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.”
“The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.”

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