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There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.
Shaun David Hutchinson (We Are the Ants)
The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.
Michael Denton (Evolution: A Theory in Crisis)
His mother?" Gracie couldn't believe it. Suzy Denton looked much too young to be his mother. And much too respectable. "But you're not a-" She cut herself off in mid-sentence as she realized what she'd almost let slip. Suzy's wedding ring clicked against the steering wheel as she gave it a hard smack. "I'm going to kill him! He's been telling that hooker story again, hasn't he?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Heaven, Texas (Chicago Stars, #2))
This was how Diego saw me. I was Henry Denton and I was Space Boy. I was broken and I was beautiful. I was nothing and I was everything. I didn't matter to the universe, but I mattered to him.
Shaun David Hutchinson (We Are the Ants)
Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger.
John Waters (Role Models)
When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.
Denton Welch
All right, sweetheart; here's your last question, and it's a real challenge, so don't let yourself get distracted by these jealous women. To make sure all twelve of our future children are going to be legitimate, what New York City football team did Joe Namath play for?" Gracie's face fell. Lord. Any fool should know the answer to this one. New York City... What football team was from New York City? Her expression brightened. "The New York City YANKEES!" A roar of laughter went up from the crowd, accompanied by more than a few loud groans. Bobby Tom silenced them all with a glare. At the same time, the glitter in his eyes dared any of them to contradict her. When he was certain everyone understood the message, he turned back to Gracie and gathered her into his arms. With a tender look and a gentle brush of his lips, he said "Exactly right, sweetheart. I had no idea you knew so much about football" And that was how every last person in Telarosa, Texas, came to understand that Bobby Tom Denton had finally and forever fallen head over heels in love.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Heaven, Texas (Chicago Stars, #2))
Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you? Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.
Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park: The Shooting Script)
Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it comes as something of a shock to realize that there is absolutely no positive evidence for its existence.
Michael Denton (Evolution: A Theory in Crisis)
There’s an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.
Shaun David Hutchinson (We Are the Ants)
He wanted to impart some of the truths Bruce Denton had taught him, that you dont' become a runner by winning a morning workout. The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many days, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years. The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials. How could he make them understand?
John L. Parker Jr.
I began to long, as I had before, for some special smell, some special music that would fill me, lift me up and carry me away, float me off the rocks of my body and sweep me into some wideness, some vast expanse of blue-grey nothingness.
Denton Welch (A Voice Through a Cloud)
Nothing like a cheap shot, right?’ He snorted blood from his nose. ‘I’m disappointed. I thought even terrorists had principles.’ ‘Can it,’ Nasira said, towering over him with her P90 leveled at his head. ‘If we need patriotic paramoralisms, we’ll give Jack Bauer a call.’ Denton grimaced, pulled himself upright. ‘And if I need overblown alliteration, I’ll give you a call.
Nathan M. Farrugia (The Chimera Vector (The Fifth Column, #1))
When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you / The best ever death metal band out of Denton will in time both outpace and outlive you / Hail Satan!
John Darnielle
When people tell you, "don't worry," it means you're already screwed. They just don't want you to worry about it...
John Bailey Denton
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
James Denton
It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.
Jeremiah A. Denton Jr.
Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.
Michael Denton (Evolution: A Theory in Crisis)
I had come with such pain and labour to a place where emptiness had arrived before me. I was too late, something black and hollow had overtaken me and wriggled through the door.
Denton Welch (A Voice Through a Cloud)
Judge Rountree holds half my property in the palm of his hand." Denton's growl broke the silence. "I'd appreciate if you didn't insult him at all, much less in his own home." "He named his children One, Two, Three, and Four," she said. "He deserves to be insulted.
Deeanne Gist (A Bride in the Bargain)
MR. VAN BUREN DIED IN THE ARMS OF HIS LOVER, ANNABELLE WHITAKER, IN TENNESSEE. HIS WIFE, MAGS, CAN NOW REST IN PEACE.
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
And he'd kill Lily Ann Denton, put her in the trunkm and go to arbys. Godm he was hungry.
Gregg Olsen (Heart of Ice (Emily Kenyon, #2))
Some thirteen-year-old with a sticker-covered guitar might right now be in a garage in Denton, Texas, or Peoria, Illinois, or Macon, Georgia, writing an album that could one day flip the world upside down.
Dan Ozzi (Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007))
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
Andrew Denton
The white cat Sal-al was lying on the straw matting in the empty conservatory. She looked at us with a wicked, conceited expression as if all her appetites had just been satisfied. She was beautiful. Vesta and I both said, "I wish I were a cat!" Before we got to the last word we smiled at each other in annoyance, not liking the idea that most human beings think very much alike.
Denton Welch (Maiden Voyage)
The theory of phlogiston was an inversion of the true nature of combustion. Removing phlogiston was in reality adding oxygen, while adding phlogiston was actually removing oxygen. The theory was a total misrepresentation of reality. Phlogiston did not even exist, and yet its existence was firmly believed and the theory adhered to rigidly for nearly one hundred years throughout the eighteenth century. ... As experimentation continued the properties of phlogiston became more bizarre and contradictory. But instead of questioning the existence of this mysterious substance it was made to serve more comprehensive purposes. ... For the skeptic or indeed to anyone prepared to step out of the circle of Darwinian belief, it is not hard to find inversions of common sense in modern evolutionary thought which are strikingly reminiscent of the mental gymnastics of the phlogiston chemists or the medieval astronomers. To the skeptic, the proposition that the genetic programmes of higher organisms, consisting of something close to a thousand million bits of information, equivalent to the sequence of letters in a small library of one thousand volumes, containing in encoded form countless thousands of intricate algorithms controlling, specifying and ordering the growth and development of billions and billions of cells into the form of a complex organism, were composed by a purely random process is simply an affront to reason. But to the Darwinist the idea is accepted without a ripple of doubt - the paradigm takes precedence!
Michael Denton (Evolution: A Theory in Crisis)
It’s always easier to ignore the things we don’t really want to know.
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
The air was that perfect spring temperature when it’s hard to tell where your skin stops and the air begins.
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence.
Denton Cooley
And he'd kill Lily Ann Denton, put her in the trunkm and go to arbys. God. he was hungry.
Gregg Olsen (Heart of Ice (Emily Kenyon, #2))
What New York City football team did Joe Namath play for?" "The New York City Yankees!" A roar of laughter went up from the crowd, accompanied by more than a few loud groans. Bobby Tom silenced them all with a glare. At the same time, the glitter in his eyes dared any of them to contradict her. When he was certain every person there understood his message, he turned back to Gracie and gathered her into his arms. With a tender look and a gentle brush of his lips, he said, "Exactly right, sweetheart. I had no idea you knew so much about football." And that was how every last person in Telarosa, Texas, came to understand that Bobby Tom Denton had finally and forever fallen head over heels in love.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Heaven, Texas (Chicago Stars, #2))
To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until it is twenty kilometers in diameter and resembles a giant airship large enough to cover a great city like London or New York. What we would then see would be an object of unparalleled complexity and adaptive design. On the surface of the cell we would see millions of openings, like the port holes of a vast space ship, opening and closing to allow a continual stream of materials to flow in and out. If we were to enter one of these openings we would find ourselves in a world of supreme technology and bewildering complexity.
Michael Denton (Evolution: A Theory in Crisis)
We are here because we know that the only guarantee in life is that if you do nothing, then nothing will change.
Ann Denton (The Quadrant War (Kiah's Soul-Shifting Journey, #1))
I thought of the many people who had said to me, 'You're young; you've got plenty of time to recover.' This seemed the coldest comfort, the grimmest fact of all.
Denton Welch (A Voice Through a Cloud)
Denton placed a hand on Cinders' neck, not so much to steady her, but to ground himself. "You're here with twenty soldiers because you thought I was causing trouble?" "No, Denton. I'm here with twenty soldiers because I thought you were in trouble.
Madisyn Carlin (Key (The Redwyn Chronicles #2))
If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go do your best. That will make you special, too!
Jeff Hutchins (Denton the Dragon in Tales of Bubbleland (Book One: The Last Dragon and other Tales))
In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination of science penetrates evermore deeply into the order of nature, the cosmos appears increasingly to be a vast system finely tuned to generate life and organisms of biology very similar, perhaps identical, to ourselves. All the evidence available in the biological sciences supports the core proposition of traditional natural theology - that the cosmos is a specially designed whole with life and mankind as a fundamental goal and purpose, a whole in which all facets of reality, from the size of galaxies to the thermal capacity of water, have their meaning and explanation in this central fact. Four centuries after the scientific revolution apparently destroyed irretrievably man's special place in the universe, banished Aristotle, and rendered teleological speculation obsolete, the relentless stream of discovery has turned dramatically in favor of teleology and design, and the doctrine of the microcosm is reborn. As I hope the evidence presented in this book has shown, science, which has been for centuries the great ally of atheism and skepticism, has become at last, in the final days of the second millennium, what Newton and many of its early advocates had so fervently wished - the "defender of the anthropocentric faith.
Michael Denton (Nature's Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe)
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, say Smith and Denton, seems to be “colonizing many historical religious traditions and, almost without anyone noticing, converting believers in the old faiths to its alternative religious vision of divinely underwritten personal happiness and interpersonal niceness.”23
Kenda Creasy Dean (Almost Christian : What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church)
Blackburn thought that any band that believed it's lyrics were crucial was kidding itself. Kids out on Saturday night wanted to drink, dance and yell "WOOOO!" and have sex with somebody. They didn't want to hear a bad poet bare the angst in his tortured and immature soul. They could go to college for that shit.
Bradley Denton
The moral of the story’, he repeated, leaning forward and placing his hands flat on the desk in front of him, ‘is that every so often a natural disaster comes along, an act of God, and it blows all the dust away and when it does people can see that whatever’s left underneath ain’t so pretty. You get it?’ Denton
John Boyne (The Thief of Time)
I wrote about the night bird cries, the sea sounds and the lonely barking, and I liked what I wrote in flashes; but something was wrong with it. There is always something wrong with writing. So I tore the paper up at last, liking the untouched memory so much better, not wanting it forced into the insincerity of words.
Denton Welch (A Voice Through a Cloud)
I’d been acknowledged—seen—maybe for the first time. The sensation was dizzying.
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
how could you explain true love, the kind that nurtures and respects, that honors and cherishes?
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
None of us are afraid of dying. We are afraid of living in this kind of oppression.
Ann Denton (The Quadrant War (Kiah's Soul-Shifting Journey, #1))
Then that would be the will of Fate, or of whoever was in charge. Maybe John. Maybe Elvis. Maybe Sam. Maybe Buddy. Maybe, baby.
Bradley Denton (Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede)
I knew there was more--Mama loved to remind me of that--but Glory Road was what I knew and loved.
Lauren K. Denton (Glory Road)
But my mind was still on that front porch, welcoming the silence, the contentment, the exquisite pleasure of a quiet, love-filled life.
Lauren K. Denton (Glory Road)
Tim looked after him, disquieted. He thought Drummer Denton was one of those fellows who might decide some rainy night to kill himself.
Stephen King (The Institute)
He thought Drummer Denton was one of those fellows who might decide some rainy night to kill himself.
Stephen King (The Institute)
Oh, hell no!" I yell at them. They are not about to negotiate as to whether they get to see my goods. "Denton, I swear to God, if you come over here, I am sending you anthrax in the mail!
Angeline Kace (Wicked Thing)
Denton struck Charley as the kind of man who never wasted energy on extra movement or idle chitchat. He was foursquare Sonny Boy Williamson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a Silvertone guitar, older than old school.
Natalie Baszile (Queen Sugar)
Smith and Denton reporting on the spiritual lives of American teenagers found a common belief that, as they wryly put it, God was 'something like a combination Divine Butler and Cosmic Therapist', who was availabe on demand but undemanding. This has been popularly characterised as 'benign whateverism'. Its core is that we should try to be nice, kind, respectful and responsible, and by doing so achieve a state of 'feeling good, happy, secure, at peace.' Worse things might certainly be believed; but this is not enough to support a civilisation, inspire great art, induce fidelity, inculcate sanctity, motivate self-sacrifice, or lead us to insights into the nature of existence.
Iain McGilchrist (The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World)
Red lost her amusement. "Noko and I will set out for Halthdurn in three days. We'll be needing your best horses, Denton." "Cygnus isn't behaving?" "Cygnus is a brat." "Like rider like horse." "I take offense to that." "More like you represent that.
Madisyn Carlin (Key (The Redwyn Chronicles #2))
The heat swept off the black asphalt in waves as our ragged group started down the street between two columns of people. At first, the crowd was sparse, well-dressed, and relatively quiet, obviously high-ranking party officials. As the crowd got thicker and louder, a guard shouted:'Bow your heads!' The words shot through me like a streak of lightning. I shouted:'You are Americans! Keep your heads up!
Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. (When Hell Was in Session)
On February 25, 1984, President Reagan said: “Sometimes I can’t help but feel the First Amendment is being turned on its head…the pendulum has swung to intolerance against religious freedom…The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that Amendment was written to protect religion from government tyranny.
Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. (When Hell was in Session)
Silence stretched between us, but it wasn’t uncomfortable. Rather, it was a space for dreams. For possibility.
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
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Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
My last conscious thought was that although I lay in squalor, my mouth was minty fresh.
Bradley Denton (Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede)
I might not be poetic, little girl. But, you’re the other half of my soul.
Ann Denton (Chaining Daisy (Stalked and Plucked #1))
Please keep letting me in. I’m always on your side, okay? You can tell me anything and my love for you isn’t going to change. No matter what.
Lauren K. Denton (Glory Road)
She felt like she needed to both run a mile and go back to sleep for the next three hours.
Lauren K. Denton (Hurricane Season)
Somewhere in the first couple of days, the
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
I sighed and rested my head against the back of the glider. “I’m okay. How are you?
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
I love the smell of New Orleans in the morning. Even now.
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
I’m in Mobile. Just across the Bay.
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
and its mysterious contents. Part of me felt
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
And weeds? I will never forget her terse observation: 'Back home, we don't have any weeds. We only have plants for which we have not yet found a use.
Peter H. Denton (Live Close to Home)
You wanted to be treasured.” “I-I guess you could say that,” I said, stammering. “Instead, I got this life—and a husband—I hardly recognize. It’s not what I pictured, that’s for sure.
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
Lexington, Kentucky looks like paradise. Acres of grass as green and tender as a golf course putting green surround hilltop mansions. New Circle Road--a beltway enveloping the city's heartland like a moat--attempts to separate the wealthy landowners from the encroaching strip centers and fast-food joins that are symbolic of the rest of the state .... Combining the traditional feelings of Southerners with the uniquely gorgeous landscape of the bluegrass, Lexingtonians consider themselves and their region the cream of the crop--not only of Kentucky, but also of the nation.
Sally Denton (The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder)
That’s part of what I loved most about our little swatch of land out here—its permanence. It spoke of earth and time and dust and life. It was here before I arrived, and it would be here long after I was gone.
Lauren K. Denton (Glory Road)
Ryker, I do trust you, but I can’t let your fear of losing me keep me from making my own choices. This didn’t exactly work out like I had hoped, but it was a choice I had to make." Kiah trilogy (2) The Tech War
Ann Denton
I used to know everything about you. What made you laugh, what made you upset. The way you bounced on your toes when you were excited about something." He smiled. "I knew the real you. Underneath everything you layered on yourself, I knew who you were inside." He reached out a hand, then let it drop to his side. "It's been twenty years, Jessie. I want...you. So much it hurts. That has never changed. Not since the very first day.
Lauren K. Denton (Glory Road)
Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.
Denton Cooley
love is a choice you make in your head too. I knew I was in love with your father because I couldn’t imagine my future without him. I didn’t want to imagine it. He became such a part of me that I knew if he wasn’t there, I’d lose a part of myself too.
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
We tend to know a lot about our parents’ lives, but our grandparents? The big events of their lives happened long before we were born. By the time we’re old enough to be curious about what made them who they are, they’re old and forgetful. Or not even around anymore.
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
Bartender: "Listen to me. This is real freedom, freedom to own property, make a profit, make your life. The West, so afraid of strong government, now has no government. Only financial power." JC Denton: "Our governments have limited power by design." Bartender: "Rheroric... And you belive it! Don't you know where those slogans come from? Well-paid researchers -- how do you say it? -- "think tanks," funded by big businesses. What is that? "A think tank"? It's privately-funded propagandea. The Trilateral Commission in the United States, for instance.
Sheldon Pacotti, Chris Todd , and Austin Grossman
Adrenaline surged through me. Testosterone and electricity. I began to understand the power of aggression, of fists and fighting and pain. With this hammer, I wasn't Space Boy or Henry Denton, I was a mighty warrior and I could do anything. I attacked the wall, punching hole after hole into it, and when I'd made enough holes, I tore it down with my bare hands and bloody knuckles. The wall was my bad grades in school. The wall was the sluggers and their fucking button. The wall was Marcus. The wall was Jesse. The wall was Mom's job and Charlie's daughter. The wall was Diego. The wall was everything I hated, everything I loved.
Shaun David Hutchinson (We Are the Ants)
As a virginal preteen, and as a woman who’d taken lovers, she had daydreamed about kissing Denton Carter. While writing her book, specifically the sex scenes between him and Susan, it hadn’t been her sister he was kissing, caressing, and taking with adolescent fervor. It had been her. The fantasies had left her aroused, but irritated with herself. Surely her imagination embellished how good lovemaking with him would be. But now she realized that her daydreams had actually been tepid. His kiss was delicious and darkly erotic. It delivered. It promised more. And the substance of what it promised made her wet, feverish, and needy.
Sandra Brown (Low Pressure)
It was electric, like a thousand butterflies in my chest or a thousand balloons flying free. Sometimes being apart was even better than being with him, because I could anticipate seeing him. When we’d finally see each other again, the air between us would crackle and snap, and I couldn’t cross the room fast enough to be next to him.
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
He regarded her indignantly. “Did she say I broke our engagement?” “She didn’t say hardly anything when I talked to her this morning, just that the two of you reached a mutual decision to end your relationship.” “And you assumed that meant I ended it.” “Didn’t you?” “Hell, no.” “Are you saying Gracie dumped you?” He saw too late the trap he’d laid for himself. “‘Course not. Nobody dumps me.” “She did, didn’t she? She dumped you! Holy Moses! A person of the female species finally gave Bobby Tom Denton back a little bit of what he’s been giving out.” Grinning widely, she lifted her face to the heavens. “Thank you, Jesus!” “Will you stop that! She didn’t dump me. Haven’t you figured out by now that we were never really engaged! It was just a ploy to keep everybody off my back while I was in town.” The fact that Terry Jo was making a joke out of this hurt in a way he couldn’t express. “Of course you were engaged. A blind fool could see the two of you love each other.” “We do not! Well, maybe she loves me, but…I care about her. Who wouldn’t? She’s about the best kind of woman there is. But, love? She’s not my type, Terry Jo.” Terry Jo gave him a long, steady gaze. “It’s amazing. You don’t know any more about women now than you did in high school when you threw me over for Sherri Hopper.” She regarded him sadly. “When are you going to grow up, Bobby Tom?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Heaven, Texas (Chicago Stars, #2))
[M]ost Americans are still drawing some water from the Christian well. But a growing number are inventing their own versions of what Christianity means, abandoning the nuances of traditional theology in favor of religions that stroke their egos and indulge or even celebrate their worst impulses. . . . Both doubters and believers stand to lose if religion in the age of heresy turns out to be complicit in our fragmented communities, our collapsing families, our political polarization, and our weakened social ties. Both doubters and believers will inevitably suffer from a religious culture that supplies more moral license than moral correction, more self-satisfaction than self-examination, more comfort than chastisement. . . . Many of the overlapping crises in American life . . . can be traced to the impulse to emphasize one particular element of traditional Christianity—one insight, one doctrine, one teaching or tradition—at the expense of all the others. The goal is always progress: a belief system that’s simpler or more reasonable, more authentic or more up-to-date. Yet the results often vindicate the older Christian synthesis. Heresy sets out to be simpler and more appealing and more rational, but it often ends up being more extreme. . . . The boast of Christian orthodoxy . . . has always been its fidelity to the whole of Jesus. Its dogmas and definitions seek to encompass the seeming contradictions in the gospel narratives rather than evading them. . . . These [heretical] simplifications have usually required telling a somewhat different story about Jesus than the one told across the books of the New Testament. Sometimes this retelling has involved thinning out the Christian canon, eliminating tensions by subtracting them. . . . More often, though, it’s been achieved by straightforwardly rewriting or even inventing crucial portions of the New Testament account. . . . “Religious man was born to be saved,” [Philip Rieff] wrote, but “psychological man is born to be pleased.” . . . In 2005, . . . . Smith and Denton found no evidence of real secularization among their subjects: 97 percent of teenagers professed some sort of belief in the divine, 71 percent reported feeling either “very” or “somewhat” close to God, and the vast majority self-identified as Christian. There was no sign of deep alienation from their parents’ churches, no evidence that the teenagers in the survey were poised to convert outright to Buddhism or Islam, and no sign that real atheism was making deep inroads among the young. But neither was there any evidence of a recognizably orthodox Christian faith. “American Christianity,” Smith and Denton suggested, is “either degenerating into a pathetic version of itself,” or else is “actively being colonized and displaced by a quite different religious faith.” They continued: “Most religious teenagers either do not really comprehend what their own religious traditions say they are supposed to believe, or they do understand it and simply do not care to believe it.” . . . An ego that’s never wounded, never trammeled or traduced—and that’s taught to regard its deepest impulses as the promptings of the divine spirit—can easily turn out to be an ego that never learns sympathy, compassion, or real wisdom. And when contentment becomes an end unto itself, the way that human contents express themselves can look an awful lot like vanity and decadence. . . . For all their claims to ancient wisdom, there’s nothing remotely countercultural about the Tolles and Winfreys and Chopras. They’re telling an affluent, appetitive society exactly what it wants to hear: that all of its deepest desires are really God’s desires, and that He wouldn’t dream of judging. This message encourages us to justify our sins by spiritualizing them. . . . Our vaunted religiosity is real enough, but our ostensible Christian piety doesn’t have the consequences a casual observer might expect. . . . We nod to God, and then we do as we please.
Ross Douthat (Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics)
She glanced at me as if looking for confirmation. I opened my mouth, then closed it. My mind was a chalkboard wiped clean. My fingers found the edges of the folded letter inside the envelope. “Thank you, Vernon.” Dot stood. “It’s time for us all to go home. We’ll eat, then we can talk about everything.” She looked at me. “We’ll see you at the house.” I pried open the manila envelope before I even closed my car door. Aside
Lauren K. Denton (The Hideaway)
I think you marry the one who, when everything else is stripped away—money, job, arguments, disagreements—he’s still the one you’d want to sit with on the porch and . . . just . . . do nothing. Or do anything.” I looked down at my fingers spread out on top of the rolling cart next to me, each nail painted a smooth, glossy mother-of-pearl. Not a speck of dirt in sight. “Pick the one who matters more than all the stuff of life.
Lauren K. Denton (Glory Road)
The global village is illusory at best -- and, at worst, is evidence of delusion on a global scale. We live in the village -- the community -- where our home happens to be.
Peter H. Denton (Live Close to Home)
Unlike information, knowledge is always local, woven together with where we learn it and where we learn to use it. Yet knowledge does not exist in a vacuum. It requires other people, to teach us, to value what we do, and to join with us in community -- in a context where information that has become knowledge can then be turned into wisdom.
Peter H. Denton (Live Close to Home)
She said how ludicrous it was to plant huge fields of the same kinds of crops, guaranteeing pests -- and the need to use chemicals -- when, back home, the same crop was planted every seven rows. Mixing things up meant that a pest would starve before reaching the next row it needed to eat.
Peter H. Denton (Live Close to Home)
A sustainable local economy is one that enables the local community to be sustainable in all of its aspects in the long run. If the local economy is not sustainable, its future has been traded away -- literally -- to people at a distance, for the proverbial bowl of stew.
Peter H. Denton (Live Close to Home)
Don't make the mistake of thinking there's only one road you can take, only one life you can live. You'll figure out how to make the different parts of your life come together.
Lauren K. Denton (Hurricane Season)
It's easy to expect everyone else to have changed because you have, but reality is still out there churning away. Your time away changes you, but it doesn't change anyone else.
Lauren K. Denton (Hurricane Season)
I understand the pull photography has. Any art, really. Anything that lets you capture the world as you see it and say things you can't say with words. Sometimes it's more important than anything else.
Lauren K. Denton (Hurricane Season)
When they tried to cross the Choptank River near Denton, just 17 miles into their long journey, the bloodhounds from the Murphy farm caught up with them. Did I mention that Moses was a planner? He had fully prepared himself for this turn of events. For months back on the farm, he had secretly befriended those dogs with scraps of food and other bits of love and kindness. Now, at this moment of great danger, those dogs turned tail and headed back home when he ordered them to do so.
Jim Duffy (Tubman Travels: 32 Underground Railroad Journeys on Delmarva)
Don’t make the mistake of thinking there’s only one road you can take, only one life you can live. You’ll figure out how to make the different parts of your life come together. I have all the faith in the world in you.
Lauren K. Denton (Hurricane Season)
students with ADHD may benefit from using a seat cushion or a fidget toy (such as Silly Putty or a squeeze ball). Seat cushions can provide extra stimulation while seated, and fidget toys allow hand movements that can assist students in concentrating (Aune, Burt, & Gennaro, 2010; Denton & Silver, 2012). Students with ADHD may also benefit from self-monitoring. While traditionally self-monitoring involves paper and pencil, students can use technology to self-monitor, such as student response systems (Szwed & Bouck, 2013) as well as smartphones and other mobile technologies (for example, an iPod). Finally, assistive technology tools to support organization may benefit students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. See the accompanying Spotlight on Technology feature to learn additional ways that technologies can help.
Richard M. Gargiulo (Special Education in Contemporary Society: An Introduction to Exceptionality)
Denton, L., & Silver, M. (2012). Listening and understanding: Language and learning disabilities. In L. Barclay (Ed.), Learning to listen/listening to learn (pp. 372–453). New York, NY: American Foundation for the Blind.
Richard M. Gargiulo (Special Education in Contemporary Society: An Introduction to Exceptionality)
But Daddy’s death changed my belief. Sure, a love may be great, but that didn’t mean it would be forever. Where before I’d thought love was what sustained you, what carried you, I now knew it didn’t last. Hurt would still come.
Lauren K. Denton (Glory Road)
Take the gifts of this hour.
Lauren K. Denton (Glory Road)
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Andy Griffiths (The 91-Storey Treehouse)
Hurry up and come so I can stretch that pussy with my cock and make you come again.
Ann Denton (Chaining Daisy (Stalked and Plucked #1))
Nick Denton’s core insight: in the newspaper era, the best stories were sometimes the ones reporters told one another in bars, rather than the ones they printed.
Ben Smith (Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral)
I shake a finger at her, and then, out pops a phrase that sets the tone for everything to come between us. Low and husky, I state, “Daddy knows best.
Ann Denton (Chaining Daisy (Stalked and Plucked #1))