Chastise Bible Quotes & Sayings

I have an innate incompetence for anything mechanical. It has always seemed to me that a machine can tell from far away that I am afraid of it and that I don't understand anything about it, and breaks down on the spot out of sheer self-preservation. — Heda Margolius Kovaly

Permanence, I once copied down from a magazine, is what we all want when we can love and can be loved; change is what we want when we cannot. — Nuala O'Faolain

There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above all in the production and the origin of Evil. The other consists in the discussion of continuity, and of the indivisibles which appear to be the elements thereof, and where the consideration of the infinite must enter in. — Gottfried Leibniz

You can't be afraid to get back up and try again, and you really can't do that unless you acknowledge the failure. — Chris Bosh

If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question. — Richard Flanagan

Often, economists spend their energies squabbling with one another, but arguably the more important contrast is between our broadly liberal economic worldview and the various alternatives - common around the globe - that postulate natural hierarchies of religion, ethnicity, caste and gender, often enforced by law and strict custom. — Tyler Cowen

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory. — Marjorie Holmes