Buckle Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ever since the field of biology emerged in the United States and Europe at the start of the nineteenth century, it has been bound up in debates over sexual, racial, and national politics. And as our social viewpoints have shifted, so has the science of the body. — Anne Fausto-Sterling

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. — Samuel Butler

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them. — Don Cheadle

If there is no black and white, there is yet lighter and darker, and not all grays are the same. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Jesus died for our sins" has been understood. Among some Christians, it is seen as an essential doctrinal element in the Christian belief system. Seen this way, it becomes a doctrinal requirement: we are made right with God by believing that Jesus is the sacrifice. The system of requirements remains, and believing in Jesus is the new requirement. Seeing it as a metaphorical proclamation of the radical grace of God leads to a very different understanding. "Jesus died for our sins" means the abolition of the system of requirements, not the establishment of a new system of requirements. — Marcus J. Borg

My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of looking to Christ, they are looking at the bite of sin. — Dwight L. Moody

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after. — Moon Unit Zappa

I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life. — Maurice Sendak

I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material. — Carlton Cuse

Every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment). — G.M. Malliet

I do come from a very close family. And I'm fascinated, in particular, with family relationships and the relationships that we all form with friends who feel as close, if not closer, than family. — John Corey Whaley

People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential. — Peter Guber

Beloved King of Comedy. — Mack Sennett

My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows. — Nile Rodgers