Beuford Thomas Quotes & Sayings

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding. — Richard Dawkins

In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat. — Malcolm Gladwell

I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical. — Nora Roberts

I feel that it is vital that we all re-open our spiritual gifts and open up to the voice of the Divine. — Doreen Virtue

Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand ... — Khaled Hosseini

For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had been thrust upon it. — George Sorel

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on the top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. — Raymond Chandler

As Liberal Democrats and proponents of federalism, we must put our heads above the parapet and recapture and disseminate the true meaning of federalism. We have to win the vocabulary before we succeed in the vision. — Charles Kennedy