Credal Quotes & Sayings

I will prove by my life that my critics are liars. — Plato

I will call you Beauty, for that is what you are. — Meagan Spooner

Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind-Thy windy will to bear! — Emily Dickinson

The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society. — Dustin Clare

After all, [female genital mutilation is] a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure. True, a lot of us hapless western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don't demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On such slender distinctions does civilization rest. — Mark Steyn

The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder. — W.E.B. Du Bois

In 1941, Dorothy L. Sayers provided a detailed analysis of that creative process in The Mind of the Maker. She developed the relevance of the imago Dei for understanding artistic creation in explicitly trinitarian terms. In every act of creation there is a controlling idea (the Father), the energy which incarnates that idea through craftsmanship in some medium (the Son), and the power to create a response in the reader (the Spirit). These three, while separate in identity, are yet one act of creation. So the ancient credal statements about the Trinity are factual claims about the mind of the maker created in his image. Sayers delves into the numerous literary examples, in what is one of the most fascinating accounts ever written both of the nature of literature and of the imago Dei. While some readers may feel she has a tendency to take a good idea too far, The Mind of the Maker remains an indispensable classic of Christian poetics. — Leland Ryken

A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself — Miguel Angel Ruiz

It's either feast or famine, and that's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. I've spent my whole career thinking I'll never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come. — Amanda Donohoe

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day. — Honore De Balzac

It's clear by now that the problem of language evolution is completely intractable when you approach it from the perspective of a single discipline. For all the salient questions to be answered, the multidisciplinary nature of the field will have to become even more so. So far, it has taken years for individuals in different departments to start talking, to develop research questions that make sense for more than one narrow line of inquiry, and to start to understand one another's points of view. The field of language evolution needs students who can synthesize information from neuroscience, psychology, computer modeling, genetics, and linguistics. The more this happens, the richer and wider the field will become, instead of devolving around one or two theoretical issues. — Christine Kenneally

He was as inexpressive as he is to-day, and yet oddly obtrusive: one of those uncomfortable presences whose silence is an interruption. — Edith Wharton

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

She said, in her defense, "Love is a luxury."
"No. Love is an element. — Laini Taylor

It's a good world if you don't weaken. — Graham Greene