Wendell Berry Quotes

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

Wendell Berry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 5, 1934

Topics

JusticeDayPeopleEvery DaySaid

I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car.

Jessica Pare

HomeCarMeFeelMoreScared

I probably should have had a little more tolerance with Jimmy Johnson. Seriously.

Jerry Jones

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Live Aid turned our world upside down.

John Deacon

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Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

John Maeda

PeopleResearchResultsNeedMeans

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Anna Quindlen

WorkBeginningYourselfAmazingHard

The best day was when we got bin Laden.

Michael Mullen

BestDayGotBin

If you believe in equality, if you believe in standing up for the rights of all, especially for people most affected by bigotry and discrimination, then you have no choice but to be present and accounted for when it comes to standing up for gays and lesbians in our society.

Michael Moore

EqualityPeopleSocietyBelieveYou

It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.

Jon Katz

LoveBeautifulExperienceDeathYou

I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits.

Bruce Vilanch

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I know it's odd. But when I was getting scuba certified, it was explained very early on that you never get to just strap on a tank and jump into the ocean. You have to know how deep you're going, and the deeper you go, the less amount of time you stay down there - and it takes longer to get to the surface.

Brie Larson

TimeOceanDeepYouEarlyDown

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke

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Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

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