Julie H. Ernstein > Julie H.'s Quotes

“I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don't use it, what's the point of being in the room?”
― Michelle Obama

“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother”
― Jane Goodall

“Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links,
Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks,
Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh
There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.”
― W. H. Auden

“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping back from the noise.”
― David Ulin

“A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
― Aldo Leopold

“There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“God. Love. People use words all the time. Doesn't mean they agree on their meaning. It doesn't mean they've thought through what they mean when they use them.”
― The Man i The Booth at the End i

“They can herd you only because you can't herd yourselves. Forget the flock. Forget the dogs. Herd yourselves.”
― Leonie Swann, Three Bags Full

“Cake or death?”
― Eddie Izzard

“If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.”
― Geraldine Brooks

“Once upon a time, I'd come close to being killed in the big trash bin outside. This counts as nostalgia for someone like me.”
― Sue Grafton, V is for Vengeance

“If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.”
― Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

“The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“The weather isn't what you think it is. Not by a long shot.”
― Rachel Caine, Ill Wind

“Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.”
― J.D. Robb, Naked in Death

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“...and the rest is taxidery. --Morticia Addams (The Addams Family”
― Charles Addams

“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
― Edward R. Murrow

“Why would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food? --7/14/09 interview with Peter Mancall, author of Fatal Journey”
― Jon Stewart

“Cool! Now I can steal some rich old coot's Ferrari and go fishing for marlin with the same piece of jewelry.”
― Jennifer Rardin , Once Bitten, Twice Shy

“What's life without risk," my father said. "Nothing but mauvais foi [bad faith]”
― Susan Hubbard, The Society of S

“Maybe that was the sign of a true intellectual--someone who could accept the weird.”
― Ronald De Feo, Calling Mr. King

“The world falling apart isn't an excuse to take up bad habits...”
― P.C. Cast, Hunted

“in the nineteenth year and the eleventh month
speak your tattered Kaddish for all suicides:

Praise to life though it crumbled in like a tunnel
on ones we knew and loved

Praise to life though its windows blew shut
on the breathing-room of ones we knew and loved

Praise to life though ones we knew and loved
loved it badly, too well, and not enough

Praise to life though it tightened like a knot
on the hearts of ones we thought we knew loved us

Praise to life giving room and reason
to ones we knew and loved who felt unpraisable.

Praise to them, how they loved it, when they could.”
― Adrienne Rich

“Swimmers know full well that every second has a beginning, a middle, and an end.”
― Dara Torres, Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

“From what I could tell, whenever an archangel or a burning bush turns up, it's generally not to say, 'Hey, go out and have a happy and uncomplicated life.”
― Rosemary Clement-Moore, Highway to Hell

“Hard work may pay off in the long run, but the benefits of laziness are immediate.”
― Marc Acito, How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou