I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. —Vincent Van Gogh More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness. —Corita Kent More about this quote Tags: people music painting wholeness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every man has a sane spot somewhere. —Robert Louis Stevenson More about this quote Tags: universality sanity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. —Rudyard Kipling More about this quote Tags: love patience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking. . . . The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the words "My God, what have we done? —Captain Robert Lewis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What terrible discipline it takes to live harmoniously. —Angela Carter More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: hate spirit nonviolence violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I will not carry a gun. . . . I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to old Virginia, I'll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun! —Hawkeye, in the TV show M*A*S*H More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nonviolence doesn't always work — but violence never does. —Madge Micheels-Cyrus More about this quote Tags: work nonviolence violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Alas, what is terrible is not the skeletons, but the fact that I am no longer terrified by them. —Anton Chekhov More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
O Lord, our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sport of the sun-flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the source of love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen. —Mark Twain More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. —Pentagon official on why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War More about this quote Tags: war politics peace violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. —Gil Bailie More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature. —Barbara Kingsolver More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email