Bill Hazeldine Quotes & Sayings

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma. — Graydon Carter

We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel. — Mary Wollstonecraft

Atonement theology assumes that we were created in some kind of original perfection. We now know that life has emerged from a single cell that evolved into self-conscious complexity over billions of years. There was no original perfection. If there was no original perfection, then there could never have been a fall from perfection. If there was no fall, then there is no such thing as "original sin" and thus no need for the waters of baptism to wash our sins away. If there was no fall into sin, then there is also no need to be rescued. How can one be rescued from a fall that never happened? How can one be restored to a status of perfection that he or she never possessed? So most of our Christology today is bankrupt. Many popular titles that we have applied to Jesus, such as "savior," "redeemer," and "rescuer," no longer make sense, because they assume — John Shelby Spong

When a comrade falls in battle, if there is even the slightest chance that they could be saved, you take it. — Ryan J. Alls

The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching. — Isaac Asimov

If we cannot be free, we can at least be cheap — Frank Zappa

It was a lesson most people learned much earlier; that even friendship could have an undisclosed shelf life. That loyalty and affection, so consuming and powerful, could dissipate like fog. — Jennifer Haigh

My family and friends treat me as they always have. — Daniel Craig

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day. — Rachel Holmes

One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do ... — Russell Baker

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love. — Zoe Akins

The exercise of the virtues is itself a crucial component of the good life for man — Alasdair MacIntyre

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists. — Creed Bratton

Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license. — Mark Twain

My house is not James Bondish at all. Sorry. — Ken Adam