David Guterson Inspirational Quotes (29)

That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire human beings must act on reason.

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.