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Some Quotes by Wendell Berry
- If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience…
- I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a better…
- For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.
- Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God?…
- A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith,…
- To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us…
- There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.
- To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money,…
- and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its…
- I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I want it to…
- If the devil doesn't exist... how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they're smart enough to be?
- Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the…
- We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They…
- No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small…
- You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by…
- They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world…
- Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.
- Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
More Some Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong