#eat

Fairness,' he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#justice #death

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#anyway #because #death #horribly #i

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#agree #most #theatre #would

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else. ↗

— Ugo Betti

#behind #cares #else #great #just

I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less. ↗

— Marion Berry

#am #bush #clearly #defeated #george

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#civil rights #create #does #everybody #get

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#home #nonsense #others #philosophies #ride

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#am #any #bound #climbed #day

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#back #concerns #directly #eat #fairly

Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits--I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively about the city's dead. For even less money. It was a strange and inexplicable career move. ↗

— Avi Steinberg

#death #obituary #death