Confreres In English Quotes & Sayings

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued. — Jonas Salk

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. — Rachel Carson

Sweet Jesus, you're wearing stockings.
Christian Grey — E.L. James

I'm not an extremist, you know. — Brigitte Bardot

I wonder if you've got a minute.
I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose. — Jodi Picoult

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel. — Robert M. Gates

No secrets, no longing, no desperate hoping
Just reach out and grab from a world cracked open. — David Rakoff

In short, the Enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such as reflecting God's nature, producing character, or raising children. Slowly but surely, this newer understanding of the meaning of marriage has displaced the older ones in Western culture. — Timothy Keller

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover. — Giotto Di Bondone

A marriage is meant to be a blessing on the world, because it is a context in which two people might become more than what they would have been alone. The entire world is healed by the presence of healed people. — Marianne Williamson

Your treachery is what I have come to expect. And my heart, you never deserved its affection. — Joel T. McGrath

Played out over time, the differences in growth and middle-class prosperity between countries that have decreased incentives (through increased income redistribution) and those that have not are startling. Look at the differences between Europe and the U.S.; East and West Germany; and Communist China versus Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China today. There are enormous and compounding costs to dulling incentives for entrepreneurial risk-taking with few, if any, exceptions. — Edward Conard

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. — Steven Wright

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on. — Mary Douglas