180673m1 Quotes & Sayings

Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on by the pious zeal of the Christian church, and in the total amount, several million were found numbered with the dead: the awful effects of religious fanaticism presuming upon the aid of heaven. — Elihu Palmer

I seemed to have only two speeds on problems that hit me emotionally, either putting my fingers in my ears and going la-la-la, or picking up an axe and attacking the issue. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives. — Lucy Walker

Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness. — Alfred North Whitehead

There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules. — Frederick Lenz

Most beautiful things comes to us free of charge. — Debasish Mridha

On my first evening in the back country, I skipped down the porch steps of the farmhouse-leaving my father inside and the radio playing and my small suitcase decorated with neon flower stickers unpacked-and wandered towards the upside-down school bus I'd spied from an upstairs window. — Mitch Cullin

There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can't duplicate that on blogs. — Noam Chomsky

Death had no lips, but it was smiling — Franny Billingsley

You realize who you're in love with is fading fast. You don't know what to do, but in that period time moves so slowly. — Taylor Swift

[ ... ] rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself! — B.B. King