Grab-bag Quotes

I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game. (Toni Morrison)
In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction. View quote
Roberto Unger
You are the descendant of a tiny cell of primordial protoplasm washed up on an empty beach three and a half billion years ago. You are the blind and arbitrary product of time, chance, and natural forces. You are a mere grab-bag of atomic particles, a conglomeration of genetic substance. You exist on a tiny planet in a minute solar system in an empty corner of a universe. You are a purely biological entity, different only in degree but not in kind from a microbe, virus, or amoeba. You have no essence beyond your body, and at death you will cease to exist entirely. In short you come from nothing and are going to nowhere. View quote
Randy Alcorn
She considered seventy-six. It...made no sense. Except that sometime in the past three years, she had switched from counting her years not up from birth, but back from death-a grab-bag of time not growing, but shrinking, use it or lose it. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold