Driftless Quotes

“We are all connected in ways we cannot even begin to fathom. Our lives unfold through each other and within each other. What one suffers, we all feel. What one does changes others forever.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“We are not separate, and I want you to know that. We are all part of one thing, and nothing good has ever passed or ever can pass away. There is no way out, but there is a way in, and when one person feels lonely like a ghost it touches us all.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“Telling the truth is always wrong if it threatens those for whom being wrong can never be true.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“He wondered if there were other places in the universe where the rules of the living did not require feeding on each other - where wonder could be discovered without horror and learning the truth did not entail losing one's faith.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“[He] accepted me for what I was and it wasn't fair of him not to give me the same chance to accept him in the same way.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“Depression-era memories. They could easily recall events—and spoke of them in earnest detail—that occurred before electricity, telephones, and interstate highways.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“(The name Wisconsin is believed by some to be a derivation of the word Wishkonsing, place of the beaver.)”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“The roof leaked and the toilet flushed with the kind of diminished enthusiasm that often precedes serious septic difficulties. She”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“she also tended to see strangers not as individuals but as representatives of types. It was as though people did not walk around in the world as themselves, but as examples of kinds of people, the majority of whom they had never met.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“The things that wound us are the most important things we know,”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“The dead forever change the living.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“listen for the intention of what people say and ignore the words.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“It could mean that some unknowable Spirit ruled the world & directed his actions, or perhaps that he had simply been lucky. Perhaps it meant that the avoidance motive - fear - should be ignored in all-important matters. The Room of Vital Wisdom may be empty, he thought, but shut should not prevent us from going inside.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“Someone may someday figure out how to distribute all good and bad things fairly. Maybe you can do that, find a way for even the most unfortunate people to have the same opportunities as the rest of us. Maybe you can discover how to make sure that only those who truly deserve wealth - or poverty - will have it. Perhaps you can find some men and women who after overthrowing the corrupt fools now in power will not become corrupted themselves. As soon as you find them, let me know. Let all of us know.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“Contrary to what you may think, the legal system was neither founded upon nor designed to reflect the common decency found in normal human relationships. It primarily works like the rules for a lunatic asylum. It tries to govern people driven insane by the inflated idea of their own worth.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“Jerseys were for people who were afraid to milk Holsteins and too ashamed to milk goats.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless

“human beings we have the obligation to transcend law through mercy. If we all had to live by the law, we would all be condemned—all of us. It is only by showing compassion and mercy that we create a better world.”
― David Rhodes, Driftless