2020/04/26 #SundaySentence
If Liz Warren were president this would be a plandemic.
from the Twitter feed of The Volatile Mermaid
Sunday Sentence is inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
Quotes
2020/04/19 #SundaySentence
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
Susan Sontag (read the article by Kurt Vonnegut here
Sunday Sentence is inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
2020/03/15 #SundaySentence
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou, photo by J.L. Munn
Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
2020/03/08 #SundaySentence
Our efforts to fight poverty are often based on the misconception that poor people must pull themselves up out of the mire. But the relentless struggle to make ends meet has serious effects on the brain. Poverty is not a lack of character – it’s a lack of cash.
From Poverty isn’t a lack of character. It’s a lack of cash. by Rutger Bregman
Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
2020/03/01 #SundaySentence
When someone, while having an asthma attack, says “I love you” or “I really love you”, there’s a difference. A word difference. And a word is a lot, because that word could have been “sit”, “Ventolin” or even “ambulance”.
From Words by Etgar Keret
Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
2020/02/23 #SundaySentence
It is because you think if you own publishing you can control what’s printed, what’s written, what’s read? Well, lotsa luck, sir. It’s a common delusion of tyrants. Writers and readers, even as they suffer from it, regard it with amused contempt.
by Margaret Atwood from her essay “Staying Awake” (Harper Magazine 2008)
Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
2020/02/16 #SundaySentence
Can Afric’s muse forgetful prove?
From “An Hymn To Humanity” by Phillis Wheatley
Or can such friendship fail to move
A tender human heart?
Immortal Friendship laurel-crown’d
The smiling Graces all surround
With ev’ry heav’nly Art
Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
2020/02/09 #SundaySentence
I came up in the sixties, which is way after everything else. But we always assumed that we knew white people, that we really sort of understood them. And I found out that if you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.
by Nikki Giovanni in James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni’s Extraordinary Forgotten Conversation About the Language of Love and What It Takes to Be Truly Empowered
Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
2020/02/02 #SundaySentence
Realism is more my ministry than is unbridled optimism. Hope is too ineffable and far too elusive. Hope allows us to leave what is possible in the hands of others.
from The Case Against Hope by Roxane Gcay
Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
2020/01/26 #SundaySentence
We die only once, and for such a long time.
from A Love Song for Bobby Long, character Lawson Pines
Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.