James Carroll Quotations

This programmable machining center will provide local area students with the opportunity to learn modern machining and programming, better preparing them for careers in manufacturing industries.

Many people will assume I'm drawing a wildly idealistic portrait of what the church can become. I would argue that all of the changes I'm calling for are not only realistic, they're essential. And I'd also say that in some way or other, each of them is already underway.

I was surprised that they found her. We didn't know anything about her, just what she looked like. (That day) I heard all this noise and he (Merle Carroll) was lying on the ground. She sped off immediately. It was pretty crazy.

I found myself back to the Pentagon...as a protester?and my dad was still inside.

He's a great writer, but he's also the first writer-celebrity. His story as an expatriate and as an adventurer competes with his work.

We carefully nurture a spirit of detachment toward the wars we pay for.

We cloak ourselves in cold indifference to the unnecessary suffering of others - even when we cause it.

It has continued to drop in the Department of Interior budget, particularly fish and wild life.

Generally speaking, these terms (with foreign governments) have gotten much tougher in the last 20 years. In 1986, the price of oil was $10 to $20 a barrel.

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things....but, there are times when we must stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or in its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak for a generation. On the American side, there were foul racism, vengeful refusals to take prisoners, a generalized brutality that extended to a savage air war.

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

There are so many flaws, .. I don't think they can be fixed.

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories because we can't help it. We tell stories because we love to entertain and hope to edify. We tell stories because they fill the silence death imposes. We tell stories because they save us.

The indictment of the vice president's chief of staff for perjury and obstruction of justice is an occasion to consider just how damaging the long public career of Richard Cheney has been to the United States.