Editor Quotes

And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.

In general, 'the market' is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants.

Robert L. Bartley

Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here's one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the population.

How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well, I always thought, often enough that its a wonder the whole waking world isn't simply viewed as an endless improvised film. One with as many screenwriters, producers, and directors as there are actors

Bradford Morrow

Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder.

The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.

Lidia Yuknavitch

We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We want to know mountains too, but they've got no story. So we do the next best thing. We throw ourselves onto them and make the stories happen.

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom. It means caution, independence, honesty and veracity. Faith means negligence, serfdom, insincerity and deception. The man who never doubts never thinks. He is like a straw in the wind or a waif on the sea. He is one of the helpless, docile, unquestioning millions, who keep the world in a state of stagnation, and serve as a fulcrum for the lever of despotism. The stupidity of the people, says Whitman, is always inviting the insolence of power.

George William Foote

Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates
the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.

It's hard to feel hurt or frightened when you're flooded with pity.

In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.

For most men, a stepford wife would bore them to tears after a couple of weeks

Na'ima B. Robert

Kids take up all available time - it's the basic law of parenthood. No matter how much time you give them, whether you work from eight to eight or are around the house all the time, you'll still feel you haven't been there enough for them.

I think you learn about yourself through experiences - as many of them as you can manage.

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

Significantly, God in Genesis 1 pronounces the rest of creation "good" before humanity is created. The psalmist and the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel can speak of mountains, trees, sun, and moon praising God. Unlike an office complex or gymnasium, which have no value if people do not inhabit them, creation can glorify and bring God delight apart from human presence.

Justice, even-handed justice, for the Negro—that which, according to American profession, is every man's birthright—that I claimed, nothing less.

Samuel Ringgold Ward

What is a bore? The answer will vary depending on whether one is at a cocktail party... or the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia.

It often seems that celestial happenings [eclipse of the sun or moon] deign to be seen only from the most inaccessible parts of our globe.

Mabel Loomis Todd

About C. S. Lewis:

I once asked how he managed to write with such ease, and I think his answer tells us more about his writing than anything else he said. He told me that the thing he loved most about writing was that it did two things at once. This he illustrated by saying: "I don't know what I mean till I see what I've said."