Basterfield Johannesburg Quotes & Sayings

If 'Mystery Train' is my Nixon book and 'Lipstick Traces' my Reagan book, 'Invisible Republic' is my Bill Clinton book. I really liked Clinton. He made me proud to be part of this country again. For all of his failings, the way he put all that he'd done in jeopardy, I supported him from beginning to end. — Greil Marcus

Il ne faut jamais rien outrer: One should never overdo — Leo Tolstoy

Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone. — Yoko Ono

To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him. — Alvin Plantinga

The end of man is God, an end obviously exceeding the limits of reason. Yet man should have some knowledge of his end in order to regulate and order his intentions and actions towards that end. The salvation of man, therefore, demands that divine revelation should make him know a certain number of truths quite beyond the grasp of his reason.43 In other words, since man requires knowledge of the infinite God, who is his end, and since such knowledge exceeds the limits of his reason, he simply must get it by way of faith. Nor does such faith do violence to our reason. Rather, faith in the incomprehensible confers on rational knowledge its perfection and consummation. — Etienne Gilson

More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it than others! And of course the great joke is that it is O.K. to be frail and wounded because that is the way the almighty transcendent God made people. — Sheila Cassidy

What's so funny about peace, love and understanding — Elvis Costello

the truth is not supposed to free you from the truth,
just from everything else — Thylias Moss

What more can we require? Nothing but time. — James Hutton

I'll be dead after I die, and I was dead before I was born. Life is a break from death. You can't be dead all the time. — Hallgrimur Helgason

If exercising the right to vote were truly effective, the government would not be so eager to promote it. — Andrew P. Napolitano

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel. — M. Ageyev