Dunphy, Elizabeth
“Each of those photos proves a different thing. All those things add up to the truth.”
― Chris Pavone, The Expats
Daily Archives: February 14, 2013
I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.
― Ellen Hopkins
We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.
Erma Bombeck
Those who don’t return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become a part of everything. They become the Soul of the World.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don’t push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.”
― Hyman G. Rickover
I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
― Mark Twain
“And none will hear the postman’s knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?”
― W.H. Auden
Justice isn’t about fixing the past; it’s about healing the past’s future.
Jackson Burnett
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren
My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back.
― Michka Assayas, Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas
I’m going to be around until the Atomic Energy Commission finds a safe place to bury my liver.
Phil Harris
Where Barmy Harry bartered poems for grog on Central Station I sat down & wept
(Hewett, Dorothy)
Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
George MacDonald
“I think it’s perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don’t know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it’s because he’s ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they’re responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I’d want nothing to do with them.”
― Philip Pullman
I had to suspend knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
“Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
The Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.
Nancy Wynne Newhall
“Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.”
― Cotton Mather
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 