Barton Pipho > Barton's Quotes

“A black woman challenging the system and taking on a white man—especially a white cop—is not going to have an easy time.”
― Mark M. Bello, Betrayal In Black

“Mary’s supposed to be the opposite of Eve, but I bet she had childbirth pain just like everyone else.”
― Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, Dodging Satan: My Irish/Italian, Sometimes Awesome, But Mostly Creepy, Childhood

“Yes, we've given them the benefit of the doubt. But, isn't it time (for once in our lives) to give ourselves the benefit of the doubt?”
― Janine Myung Ja, Adoption Stories

“I would have hoped you would have learned by now. No matter, a man who refuses to face his destiny offers himself to the GOD of chance—and chance is a wayward bitch.”
― J.B. Lion, The Seventh Spark: Volume One – Knights of the Trinity

“911. What is your emergency?”
“Dead body.”
“You’ll have to speak up. I can’t hear you.”
“There’s a dead body in the woods!”
“Where are you located?”
“I’m on one of the trails off Summit Road in Wild Oaks Mountain Park. I’m near the summit.”
“Can you be more specific?”
“No, I can’t! Just get someone here!”
― Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

“All of us in combat were inextricably dependent on each other for our very lives. We were not only fighting for our country, we were fighting for each other.
• I know that part of what I was fighting for was the freedom we all cherish so dearly, including freedom of speech, but this is different. Having the right to free speech does not mean you have a right to your own facts or your own truth. Having free speech is not a free pass to spew hatred or to abandon civil discourse.
• The commitment and sacrifice of military members extends beyond combat. The sacrifices are real and exist twenty-four/seven regardless if we are in peacetime or war.
• In some way, we are like Plato’s prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn our heads. We only see shadows on the cave wall. We are oblivious to the larger, more colorful and more desirable world outside of the cave.
• I think where religion may go astray is when leaders and followers of a specific religious doctrine or tradition mistake the vehicle of religion for truth itself.”
― Ron Garan, Floating in Darkness - A Journey of Evolution

“I couldn’t remember a time when I felt the type of love Miruna had. Eternal love. The kind which keeps one going when one is ninety and alone.”
― M. R. Noble, Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes

“I have no great opinion of the human race. It is just as well, now and again, that we have wars, so that men know what it is to suffer pain. One day they will exterminate themselves, as they have exterminated the rabbits. So much the better. The world will be peaceful again, with nothing left but the forest over there, and the soil.”
― Daphne du Maurier, The Scapegoat

“FA' CIO' CHE VUOI, questo vuol dire che posso fare tutto quello che mi pare?"
"No, vuol dire che devi fare quel che è la tua vera volontà, e nulla è più difficile.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“They are thought pictures -- the outstanding headlands of the meandering shores of life, and are points to steer by on the broad sea of thought and experience. They body forth in living forms and colors the ever varying lights and shadows of the soul.”
― Frederick Douglass

“I am me, a unique individual who aspires to be happier than she already is.”
― L.C. Conn

“Every lover is a soldier.”
― Ovid, Amores