Di Folco Quilici Quotes & Sayings

When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God. — John Flavel

The insistence on the knowledge of intellectual mysteries, either as an indispensable addition to or as a substitute for simple obedience to the claims of the Christian life, has always been a weakness of the Church. — R.H. Charles

Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good. — M. Stanton Evans

We had been playing our assigned roles on the office stage, but stepping down from the stage, abandoning the images that we had been projecting there, we were both just unstable, awkward lumps of flesh, warm pieces of meat kitted out with digestive tracts and hearts and brains and reproductive organs. — Haruki Murakami

Our borders are much too porous ... We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful ... Right now, if you get on an airplane [to the U.S.] and claim asylum ... when you arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, they will say to you, 'OK, we'll give you a hearing on whether you deserve asylum. Show up in a year.' And two-thirds of the people never show up. — Charles Schumer

We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes. — John Hodgman

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude. — Joel Salatin

For me, art is supposed to be a question mark. — Marilyn Manson