“All his life, he had found his way out of difficult situations by determining what people wanted and then convincing them that he was the best one to provide it. Then he'd go ahead and provide it, even if providing it meant walking the narrowest of paths.”
Source: Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America
“There's a guy, Anatole Broyard, of the N. Y. Times Book Review, who's still chasing Kerouac's corpse with a stiletto.”
“So it is not age that is threatened by youth, but the other way around. Youth is threatened by age.”
“How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "market" put a price on things - food, clothes, electricity, running water - when it doesn't take into account the REAL cost of production?”
Source: The cost of living
“The U.S. will never be a free and happy nation while they continue to exploit and marginalize the Third World. The Third World will never be happy or free so long as there is a First World stuck in the mire of consumerism, alienation, indifference. (Clodovis Boff, p. 161)”
Source: The Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation
“I want to be this generation's Sherlock Holmes. That is, the man to solve first world problems.”
“In Moon View, the air felt different, like hope was threaded into each breeze that rolled over the vineyards. For the first time in a long time, Sarah believed in new beginnings.”
Source: Love Chosen: Contemporary Clean Small Town Romance Moon View Series: Book 1 of 3
“While the opportunity to improve yourself and your situation is a great thing, our striving to build perfect lives seems to have morphed into perfectionism so focused on itself that we forget about others in the world. We work so hard to build the ultimate luxury sedan, to embody society's standard of beauty, and to achieve historical scientific breakthroughs that we conveniently forget our family members in other parts of the world who must walk miles each day in their only set of clothing for the opportunity to go to school.”
Source: Faith Postures: Cultivating Christian Mindfulness
“We are so surrounded with this fortune that we tend to forget that though subjectively in abundance, objectively this is a rarity.”
Source: #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
“Ethiopia doesn't matter to the West," I say, stating the obvious. "We offer them nothing they can exploit.”
Source: Sweetness in the Belly