Quotes of: Francis Keyword

I look at people who aren’t us and I hate them.

Night Road

Nothing is more conservative than a bacterium.

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

Love exists in itself, not relying on owning or being owned.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

Life As We Knew It

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

The Library at Night

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

The Library at Night

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

The Miles Between

Evil grows when good people do and say nothing.

Marshmallows for Breakfast

Observing and understanding are two different things.

The Miles Between

Some people feed you with love.

Some Kind of Fairy Tale

Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers.

The Theory of Clouds

You led the soldiers right to my family's door. You're the reason they're dead.

Prodigy

Few people ever kill for the right reasons.

Prodigy

One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.

On Prayer

Believe what you like, but don't believe you read without questioning it.

Questionable Creatures: A Bestiary

But there was no going back to that idyllic time when only one god wanted to kill me.

Trapped

They Were all clad in the same uniform of misery and filth. For all of time, for all of eternity

War Song

Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?

The Young Elites

I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.

Henry Alford

It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.

John Ortberg