Dhsmv Quotes & Sayings

Altho' I rarely waste time in reading on theological subjects, as mangled by our Pseudo-Christians, yet I can readily suppose Basanistos may be amusing. Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. If it could be understood it would not answer their purpose. Their security is in their faculty of shedding darkness, like the scuttlefish, thro' the element in which they move, and making it impenetrable to the eye of a pursuing enemy, and there they will skulk.
[Letter to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp on 30 July 1810 denouncing the Christian doctrine of the Trinity] — Thomas Jefferson

But maybe efficiency isn't all it's held up to be. Maybe it's the inefficiencies and mistakes that give us the best impetus to change and grow and improve. — Mark Hodder

Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us. — Rainer Maria Rilke

[an encounter in space] Some celestial event. No
no words
no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful ... I had no idea. I had no idea. — Carl Sagan

If you can win me, you can have me. I'll be yours and you'll have earned it — J.A. Huss

I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that. — Matthew Perry

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do — Louis L'Amour

Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse. — Gail Collins

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold. — Victor Hugo

Valiantly, he tried to bring his soul to life in the small thing through which it had to live, and it was crushed, again and again. — Mary Gaitskill

I expect you (William Whitelaw) were as impressed as I was to read of the recent electrocution in Florida of a character called John Spenkelink in the electric chair. It seems that a full six minutes passed before Spenkelink was dead, during which time he hopped about like a prawn on a hot plate. — William Donaldson