“Do you know why God wants you rich? So you can do more. The wealthier you become, the more responsible you are to God.” Quote by Jerry Savelle
“I am opposed to both cloning and the destruction of human embryos and adamantly opposed to funding of embryonic stem cell research.” HumansResearchDestructionCellsStemFundingStem CellEmbryosStem Cell ResearchCloningEmbryonic Stem Cell ResearchEmbryonic Stem Cells Author:Sandy Adams
“At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.” AgeSchoolForceAirHigh SchoolQuittingI QuitAir Force Author:Sandy Adams
“A child lies like a grey pebble on the shore until a certain teacher picks him up and dips him in water, and suddenly you see all the colours and patterns in the dull stone, and it’s marvelous for the stone and marvelous for the teacher.” ChildrenLyingCertainWaterTeacherPicksStonesPatternsColourDullShoreMarvelousGreyDipPebbles Author:Elizabeth Hay
“How attraction works, making one's body almost painfully alive and one's thoughts concentrated, also painfully. And the truth of these powerful attractions - they have their own morality and nothing else matters.” MatterBodyPowerfulAliveMoralityAttraction Author:Elizabeth Hay
“We look so very different from the way we sound. It’s a shock, similar to hearing your own voice for the first time, when you’re forced to wonder how the rest of you comes across if you sound nothing like the way you think you sound. You feel dislodged from the old shoe of yourself.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsFirstsLooksDifferentSoundVoiceWonderFirst TimeShoesHearingShockOld Shoes Author:Elizabeth Hay
“Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went for a walk.” WorldHelpingWalksMovementTrain Author:Elizabeth Hay
“Oil painting did to appearances what capital did to social relations. It reduced everything to the equality of objects. Everything became exchangeable because everything became a commodity.” SocialObjectsPaintingRelationAppearanceOilCommoditySocial RelationsOil Painting Author:John Berger
“The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.” IfsImagineObjectsProductsEnvyJustifyTransformedSpectatorsBuyers Author:John Berger
“The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.” IfsFormInterestGreaterDependsAuthorityIllusionEnvySolitaryGlamourGlamorousBureaucratsEnviedReassurance Author:John Berger