Stem Quotes

364 quotes by 305 authors

But the grind has begun. The windows donâ€™t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide… — Dave Eggers
In short, Europeâ€™s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was… — Jared Diamond
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to… — Charles de Lint
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as… — Leonard Cohen
But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood… — Lord Byron
Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to… — Pema Chodron
As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems,… — Dante Alighieri
My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl… — Jeffrey Eugenides
In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the… — Parker J. Palmer
A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn… — Max Lucado
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no… — Toni Morrison
This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into… — Seth Grahame-Smith
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower… — Daisaku Ikeda
Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary… — Sam Harris
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did--she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency. Now she wondered… — Cassandra Clare
If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of… — Derrick Jensen
The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the… — Lurlene McDaniel
The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems… — Guy Debord
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system. — Dorothy Day

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