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Oneness Quotes (page 852)

Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity. Neal Stephenson
She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time. Azar Nafisi
... not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker)... Antonin Artaud
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, (or smiling) of something else. Jane Austen
Abraham Joshua Heschel quote: "The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's..."
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions. Abraham Joshua Heschel
A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings. Simone de Beauvoir
if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax. Jodi Picoult
There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal. Anne Lamott
For I was, as you have already guessed, a collaborator with Destiny, not one who put a pistol to its head and demanded particular treasures. The only thing for me to do was to keep on keeping on, to have faith in my whim, and remember that for me, as for the saints, illumination when it came would probably come from some unexpected source. Robertson Davies
The taipan is the one to watch out for. It is the most poisonous snake on Earth, with a lunge so swift and a venom so potent that your last mortal utterance is likely to be: "I say, is that a sn-- Bill Bryson
Julian Barnes quote: "Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer...."
Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions. Julian Barnes
Clara Bow quote: "Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when..."
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is very tired, hurt and bewildered. Clara Bow
Aesop quote: "The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the..."
The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. Aesop
In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come. E. O. Wilson
Under the plan of heaven, the husband and the wife walk side by side as companions, neither one ahead of the other, but a daughter of God and a son of God walking side by side. Let your families be families of love and peace and happiness. Gather your children around you and have your family home evenings, teach your children the ways of the Lord, read to them from the scriptures, and let them come to know the great truths of the eternal gospel as set forth in these words of the Almighty. Gordon B. Hinckley

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