Writer God Sense May Nature The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying. - Edward Hoagland
Women Men Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run. - Edward Hoagland
Mind Time Life People City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead. - Edward Hoagland
Opportunity Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes? - Edward Hoagland
People Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans. - Edward Hoagland
Possibility In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. - Edward Hoagland
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. - Julien Benda
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. - Dean Inge