About Quotes (page 691)

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• culture
• king
• crush

The core symbols we use for God represent what we take to be the highest good.... These symbols or images shape our worldview, our ethical system, and our social practice--how we relate to one another. For instance, [Elizabeth A.] Johnson suggests that if a religion speaks about God as warrior, using militaristic language such as how "he crushes his enemies" and summoning people to become soldiers in God's army, then the people tend to become militaristic and aggressive. Likewise, if the key... Sue Monk Kidd

• personality
• character
• true

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character. Michael Connelly

• life
• attention
• tell

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver

• horse
• thinking
• library

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared to what we spend on our horses? John Ruskin

• forgetting
• forgets
• better

It is better to forget about yourself altogether. C. S. Lewis

• words
• storm
• longing

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each. C. S. Lewis

• army
• today
• fashion

For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman can choose from an army of personae, femme to butch, and can cut or curl her hair or adorn herself with a staggering variety of artistic aids. But despite the Sixties experiments in peacock dress, no man can rise in the corporate world today, outside the entertainment industry, with long hair or makeup or purple velvet suits. Camille Paglia

• death
• caring
• harris

I couldn't care more about Harry Potter if Hogwarts was my alma mater. Accio Deathly Hallows. J. K. Rowling

• god
• earth
• sing

We will now sing forth, hymn 405, 'Oh God, what on earth is my hairdo all about? Eddie Izzard

• manly
• thinking
• my man

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• book
• reading
• growing up

There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always got her nose in a book? Granny Rudin Florence King

• she
• look
• slowly

She looked slowly about her, noting every object and the reason for its presence. Ayn Rand

• caring
• humanity
• manly

All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse. Mark Twain

• good
• leaving
• survived

Neither can live while the other survives, and one of us is about to leave for good... J. K. Rowling

• eyes
• expectation
• small

There was something I needed to say. “Sorry. About before.” Fang shot a sideways glance at me, his eyes dark and inscrutable, as always. He looked back out at the water. I didn’t expect any more acknowledgment than that. Fang never- “You almost gave me a heart attack,” he said quietly. “When I saw you, and all that blood . . .” He threw a small rock as hard as he could down the beach. “I’m sorry.” “Don’t do it again,” he said. I swallowed hard. “I won’t.” Something changed right then, but I... James Patterson