Defendendo A Fe Quotes & Sayings

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. — Thomas Henry Huxley

I was born in 1958, the same year NASA was established, which I like to think of as not a coincidence. I was 11 when they landed on the moon, Apollo Eleven. And, of course, everybody in the whole world was watching that. But I can tell you, at that time, nobody ever asked a girl, 'Is that something you want to grow up and do?' — Ellen Ochoa

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others do but never do it ourselves. — Gloria Steinem

Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation. — Luis Palau

The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response to be forgotten. The technique seems to be relatively free of objectionable by-products. We recommend it, for example when we suggest that a parent 'pay no attention' to objectionable behavior on the part of his child. If the child's behavior is strong only because it has been reinforced by 'getting a rise out of' the parent, it will disappear when this consequence is no longer forthcoming. (p. 192) — B.F. Skinner

Love is the theme of all religions but making it commercial is satanic. — Amit Abraham

The enemy was close. Despite my fear, I was somehow having fun. Being chased and killed by villains was a thrilling vision. My paranoia really excited me.
It stimulated me. In short, it was pleasant.
If it was pleasant, it also must be fun. — Tatsuhiko Takimoto

When I started acting classes, I was inspired. The truth is I never dreamt of being an actress as a child. But it just happened. When I started studying and getting on stage, it just came to me. I never said 'I want to be an actress.' It just happened. I started discovering myself and realized I loved it. — Ana Layevska

It would be easy to abuse a person when they never recognized it as abuse. — Marissa Meyer

Bein Crazy
is the least of my worries. — Jack Kerouac

Poetry is not a lost art. Poetry is better than ever. Of course you've got the usual gang of idiots (as the Mad magazine staff writers used to call themselves) hiding in the thickets, folks who have gotten pretension and genius all confused, but there are also many brilliant practitioners of the art out there. Check the literary magazines at your local bookstore, if you don't believe me. For every six crappy poems you read, you'll actually find one or two good ones. And that, believe me, is a very acceptable ratio of trash to treasure. The — Stephen King

By the deficits we may know the talents, by the exceptions we may know the rules, by studying patholgoy we may construct a model of health. — Laurence Miller

Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Mystic, can never rest — Aleister Crowley