Collarhedge Quotes & Sayings

THE VALLEY OF FEAR — Arthur Conan Doyle

I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else. — Jay Roach

Smile all the while because life is just a mile; enjoy the journey before it's over.-RVM — R.v.m.

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out. — Charlie Pierce

I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can. — John T. Walton

The body after long illness is languid, passive, receptive of sweetness, but too weak to contain it. — Virginia Woolf

O Lord, You bless all with Your bountiful blessings. — Guru Nanak

Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized, there is no problem accepting reports even of extraordinary things that we can still verify as occurring today, like faith healings and exorcisms. However you may wish to account for them, you can go to certain meetings and see scenes somewhat resembling those in the gospels. So it is by no means a matter of rejecting all miracle stories on principle. Biblical critics are not like the Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal. — Robert M. Price

Perhaps I can't save them from themselves," Beth answered. "But I will try to save them from you." Fellows — Jennifer Ashley

No discussion of Pennsylvania ghost towns would be complete without Centralia, in Columbia County. With all due respect to the few intrepid souls who remain in their homes today, Centralia often looks like a vision of hell, with crumbling infrastructure, silent streets, and smoke and sulfurous fumes rising from numerous fissures in the ground throughout the area. — Susan Hutchison Tassin