Daily Reminder Network Quotes & Sayings

Gladstone's was neither the first nor the last of great minds to be led astray by religious fervor, but in the case of his Studies on Homer, his convictions took the particular unfortunate turn of trying to marry Homer's pagan pantheon with the Christian creed. ... The Times was not amused: "Perfectly honest in his intentions, he takes up a theory, and no matter how ridiculous it is in reality, he can make it appear respectable in argument. Too clever by half! — Guy Deutscher

The world is a much bigger place than Bruner middle school. Those kids who make you feel bad? They're never going to know that. They'll grow up here, stay here, get married here, and have kids here. They'll never find out anything more than the petty grievances they're learning to inflict now.

But you, kiddo? You have bigger fishes to fry. I predict great things for you. — Claire Bidwell Smith

There are few things less comforting than a tiger who's been up too late. — Bill Watterson

The food I've liked in my time is American country cookin'. — Colonel Sanders

Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun. — Taisen Deshimaru

Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; not solitary in the way Jonah was, praying for deliverance in the belly of the whale. Solitary in the sense of retreat. In the sense of not having to see himself, of not having to see himself being seen by anyone else. — Paul Auster

Religion is spelled 'D-O', because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God's forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you've done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently. It's spelled 'D-O-N-E', which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God's gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership. — Bill Hybels

If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

The world wishes to be deceived. — Sebastian Franck

If there's one thing history has taught me to believe it is that it's dangerous to believe in anything very much. — Philip Kerr

The living need charity more than the dead. — George Arnold