Bertis Online Quotes & Sayings

Is it that your dream is unattainable or is it that you have the wrong dream? — Joaquin Phoenix

[French Revolution rejected] the sacred foundation both of history and of the state. History was no longer measured on the basis of an idea of God that had preceded it and given it shape. The state came to be understood in purely secular terms, based on rationalism and the will of citizens.
The secular state arose for the first time, abandoning and excluding any divine guarantee or legitimation of the political element as a mythological vision of the world and declaring that God is a private question that does not belong to the public sphere or to the democratic formation of the public will. Public life was now considered the realm of reason alone, which had no place for a seemingly unknowable God. From this perspective, religion and faith in God belonged to the realm of sentiment, not of reason. God and His will therefore ceased to be relevant to public life. — Pope Benedict XVI

Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice — Diana Gabaldon

The world is perfect the way it is. — Werner Erhard

Finally, I will never forget stopping near a lovely young girl still strapped to her seat, breathing slightly. Her blouse was white, her slacks were blue. At the end of the trousers were two snow-white ankle bones where her feet used to be. I had never seen the whiteness of bones that are freshly exposed like that. — Laurence Gonzales

It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge - some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction. — Edgar Allan Poe

The ambulance left. My shoulders became gallows and from them I hanged. — Daniel Kraus

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones. — Robert Wright

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead — Samuel Goldwyn

We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the Bible. The Word of God is being rewritten, watered down, illustrated, and dramatized in order to cater to the taste of the carnal mind. That only leads further into the wilderness of doubt and confusion. — Dave Hunt

They pushed and pushed for so long. They knew I was something dangerous, something different. Sooner or later, they had to know I would snap and come to cut them down. Or perhaps they think I'm still a child. The fools. Alexander was a child when he ruined his first nation. — Pierce Brown

My favorite album of all time is 'In A Major Way.' Look it up, it is a classic! — Blake Anderson

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not. — Niccolo Machiavelli