19 Quotes by Scott Sanders

The budget being approved by the council is the operating portion.

You're about the one millionth person who has said that to me in the eight years I've been working on this,

It's a question of how do we pay those personnel costs. There are two main choices - raise property taxes or create a franchise fee on gas and electric. We're not seeing opportunities to decrease expenditures without harming services.

That's another reason the mayor thought it was attractive. It keeps the money here in Council Bluffs.

Chicago is a terrific theater market. It's also the home of our director, Gary Griffin, and it wouldn't go unnoticed that it's also the home of Oprah Winfrey.

Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood.

I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova... All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing.

Every thread you discover in the local web of life leads beyond your place to life elsewhere.

The unexpected may annoy us, but may also wake us up.