Cerfs Quotes & Sayings

Ah, what a beautiful illustration of the completely open mind - utterly undiscriminating, lacking any criteria for acceptance, blissfully and uncritically according every idea its full respect. But, of course, it's a lie: they don't regard every idea as equally deserving. They clearly consider the atheist idea that the sacraments of their faith are empty foolishness to be an outrage. Rather, what they love is the idea that everyone else must respect their beliefs, no matter what they are, and that any disagreement is an insult. This is exactly the kind of uncritical, unskeptical, nonjudgmental idiocy that all religions seek to promulgate, because they all know that if we tore off the blinders of tradition and artificiality and mindless etiquette, we'd see right through their lies. Respect every idea! Especially mine! And if you find stupid the idea that this cracker is a god, why, you must be disrespectful and no gentleman! My — P.Z. Myers

Just because you are married don't believe your fairy tale is complete. — Francesca Castagnoli

Where there is a monster, the wise American poet Ogden Nash told us, there is a miracle. — Neil Gaiman

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. - RUMI — Jandy Nelson

Were it not for Occam's Razor, which always demands simplicity, I'd be tempted to believe that human beings are more influenced by distant causes than immediate ones. This would especially be true of overeducated people, who are capable of thinking past the immediate, of becoming obsessed by the remote. It's the old stuff, the conflicts we've never come to terms with, that sneaks up on us, half forgotten, insisting upon action. — Richard Russo

Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of 'common hatred. — David Pietrusza

Keeping body and soul together is an annoying business, as I suppose you know. — Stephen King

Trust arrives on foot but leaves in a Ferrari The Ferrari screeched out of the parking lot in 2008. — Mark Carney

Fiona: "I agree with Janie. If we have to put up with a grumpy Quinn all year, then we should be able to use his plane for emergencies. — Penny Reid

We can live in fear or act out of hope. — Bonnie Raitt

Sorrel soup:
You cut the egg into slices, and you eat it with the green soup. And the mixture of the sharp green acidity and the round comfort of the egg reminds you of something extraordinary and far away.
Of home?
Certainly not, not even for Poles.
Of what then?
... Of survival, perhaps. — John Berger

Most people would rather die than think and many of them do! — Bertrand Russell

IF YOU BELIEVE THE DOCTORS," Salisbury once remarked, "nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. — Margaret MacMillan

Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice. — Albert Einstein

Mr. Roth. The Devil is holding your daughter's hand. Now would be a great time to step up and whack the kid with your fire poker — Anne Eliot