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Because Quotes (page 203)

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves. Carl Sagan
George Eliot quote: "I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they..."
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. George Eliot
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running..."
I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus. Laurell K. Hamilton
If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too... David R. Brower
[...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it?"Oh, yes, it's there," she said. "It's there because we put it there. Anne Rice
The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever. Bob Marley
Jodi Picoult quote: "In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words,..."
In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies. Jodi Picoult
He had the sensation of stepping into the dampness of a grave, and it was not much better because he had always known that the grave was there and waiting for him. George Orwell
It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all. William James
Well, set the monster free...he's begun his hymn, because he finds it all so easy...but I'd give a quadrillion quadrillion for two seconds of joy. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Richard Wilbur quote: "A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song. In..."
A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song. In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only. Richard Wilbur
People's fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn't have fantasies you wouldn't have problems because you'd just take whatever was there. Andy Warhol
Unconditional love. That's what this is. I love him, as is, fully. I've had to stop arm wrestling with the facts. Why me? Didn't I already have a big love once? And lost it? So why should I get it again? I've had to stop trying to look for cracks and flaws to prove that it's not as good as it seems. Because it's as good as it seems. Even when we fight, we fight inside the container of good. Somehow, through a flip of the coin, I ended up here. Feeling like somebody at the top of the... Augusten Burroughs
I wanted to kick Bruce in the taint. No one is just one thing. Many things contribute to the whole of a person, and just because vodka accounts for 50 percent of my body weight, that doesn't mean I walk around with a vodka drip, forcing every plant, person, or animal to imbibe. I've always had a disliking for animal trainers, and this guy cemented my theory that people who chaperone animals for a living have never had a girl sit on their face. Chelsea Handler
Bill Cosby quote: "YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you."
YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you. Bill Cosby

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