Breadwinner Nooria Quotes & Sayings

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces. — Walter Scott

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts of infidel and atheist, have all been for this purpose. — Matilda Joslyn Gage

How can I miss someone so badly when we're in the same room? — Liz Reinhardt

We kind of fell into one another, not even realizing it was happening. — Ashley D. Wallis

It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Days of yore when America was no more than a strip of land stretching a couple hundred miles west of the Atlantic and the rest was just a very compelling idea. — Charles Frazier

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.' — Colin Powell

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. — Marianne Williamson

I can't bring myself to open my eyes. I am an ember, glowing from the inside out. The dark and silent room keeps everything else at bay, every sensation, except the two of us, Nick and Lily, who have just made love. — Beatriz Williams