Ransom Riggs book Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children
Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Chapter 6, Page 139
Source: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Ransom Riggs book Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children
Source: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011), Chapter 6, Page 139
Albert Ellis (1913–2007) American psychologist
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 31
Context: And thus our good Lord answered to all the questions and doubts that I might make, saying full comfortably: I may make all thing well, I can make all thing well, I will make all thing well, and I shall make all thing well; and thou shalt see thyself that all manner of thing shall be well.
“That I
may have spoken well
at times, is not natural.
A wonder is what it is.”
Wendell Berry (1934) author
A Warning To My Readers.
Poems
Context: Do not think me gentle
because I speak in praise
of gentleness, or elegant
because I honor the grace
that keeps this world. I am
a man crude as any,
gross of speech, intolerant,
stubborn, angry, full
of fits and furies. That I
may have spoken well
at times, is not natural.
A wonder is what it is.
“I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Letter to Kay Menyers (17 March 1958), p. 109
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
“If I exorcise my devils, well, my angels may leave too.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
"Please Call Me, Baby", The Heart of Saturday Night (1974).
Donovan (1946) Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist
Catch The Wind (1965)
Context: When rain has hung the leaves with tears
I want you near to kill my fears,
To help me to leave all my blues behind. For standin' in your heart
Is where I want to be
And long to be,
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Lectures XIV and XV, "The Value of Saintliness"
1900s, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Context: I am well aware of how anarchic much of what I say may sound. Expressing myself thus abstractly and briefly, I may seem to despair of the very notion of truth. But I beseech you to reserve your judgment until we see it applied to the details which lie before us. I do indeed disbelieve that we or any other mortal men can attain on a given day to absolutely incorrigible and unimprovable truth about such matters of fact as those with which religions deal. But I reject this dogmatic ideal not out of a perverse delight in intellectual instability. I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.