Briggan Krauss Quotes & Sayings

The teen years are not a vacation from responsibility," we had told the columnist. "They are the training ground of future leaders who dare to be responsible — Alex Harris

I have been hung in effigy by the gay community for a long time, from when I was on President Reagan's first AIDS commission. — Richard DeVos

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and genocide. — Albert Ellis

Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can insulate itself from these climate changes. That is why we need to confront climate change within a global framework, one that guarantees the highest level of international cooperation. — Ban Ki-moon

No one worries terribly much about who the questions belong to, or whether a given contribution is really philosophy or, instead, properly nothing but science. Perhaps another way to put this is that, although I think that knowledge is a natural kind, I don't think that philosophy is. — Hilary Kornblith

Always hit where the mark isn't looking"
"Who's Mark?" asked Wylan. — Leigh Bardugo

You have to be strategic in your action — Sunday Adelaja

A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded. — Tyne Daly

So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgment. Not the children, for they inherit eternal life. So who is wronged? Ironically, I think the most difficult part of this whole debate is the apparent wrong done to the Israeli soldiers themselves. Can you imagine what it would be like to have to break into some house and kill a terrified woman and her children? The brutalising effect on these Israeli soldiers is disturbing. — William Lane Craig

For most people who write, writing is a compulsion. If I could be healed of it, I would, and I think a lot of people who write feel the same way. — T. R. Pearson

Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering of the future rests where it should rest. — Sophocles

An optimist sees a failure as an opportunity to excel, but a pessimist sees a failure as an opportunity to quit. — Debasish Mridha

Christ slackens off all my chains. — Lailah Gifty Akita