Clero Secular Quotes & Sayings

I speak as a planetary physician whose patient, the living Earth, complains of fever; I see the Earth's declining health as our most important concern, our very lives depending upon a healthy Earth. Our concern for it must come first, because the welfare of the burgeoning mass of humanity demands a healthy planet. — James E. Lovelock

And there is a proud kind of moderation likewise, when men will take upon them to censure both parties, as if they were wiser than both, — Richard Sibbes

People like to cry over spilled milk, but I cry every time I spill my coffee. — Anthony Liccione

I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. — Lauren Oliver

What the (totalitarian) government cares about is making the quest for information just enough of the nuisance that people generally won't bother. — James M. Fallows

Who flipped your bitch switch ? -Elora — Quinn Loftis

In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church. — Waldemar Kaempffert

We were all over each other in the super-friendly way of puppies, or spouses meeting for the first time after one of them has undergone a close brush with death. — George Saunders

When we fall in love, we feel that this person is ours and we are theirs by our mutual volition, and we know they could leave - we know that because they are free, and their freedom is part of the thrill. — Samantha Harvey

This was all strictly run-of-the-mill Victorian patter, striking only for the fact that a man who had so exerted himself to see the world afresh had returned with such stock observations. (And, really, very little has changed; one need only lightly edit the foregoing passages - the crude caricatures, the question of human inferiority, and the bit about the baboon - to produce the sort of profile of misbegotten Africa that remains standard to this day in the American and European press, and in the appeals for charity donations put out by humanitarian aid organizations.) — Philip Gourevitch

Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser. — Thomas Carlyle

I was wrong to insult you, and not only because you are my hosts. I am afraid that I mistook kindness for weakness. My apologies. I stand - only with your aid - profoundly corrected. — Beth Fantaskey