499inks Quotes & Sayings

PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives. — Ambrose Bierce

Invincibility is in oneself, and vulnerability is in the opponent. Invincibility is a matter of defense, vulnerability is a matter of attack. Therefore skillful warriors are able to be invincible, but they cannot cause opponents to be vulnerable. That is why it is said that victory is discerned and not manufactured. — Sun Tzu

In an age of religious violence like ours, people care much less about what you believe, and much more about whether you will kill for what you believe. So if you haven't figured out what you're going to do with passages like Deuteronomy 7 and 1 Samuel 15 and Psalms 137:9, you still have some important work to do.3 If you haven't grappled with these passages and others like them, your Bible is like a loaded gun and your theology is like a license to kill. You have to find a way to disarm your faith as a potential instrument of hate and convert it into an instrument of love.4 You have to convert Christianity from a warrior religion to a reconciling religion. Otherwise, your neighbors around this seminary will tolerate you the way they might tolerate a chemical plant that could at any moment blow up and kill them all. — Brian McLaren

Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the essence of who God is — Sunday Adelaja

That's the value of the artist ... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us. — Tom Robbins

You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way. — Cannonball Adderley

I think mobile advertising is going to be huge. — Matt Cohler

If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men. — Millicent Garrett Fawcett

Sometimes he felt he needed to inhale it and place it in a storage are in his soul. Just in case — Melina Marchetta

Who is as free as a writer? Nadie es tan libre como un escritor . . . No one is as free as a writer! — Sofia Espinoza Alvarez