Discusts Quotes & Sayings

I think it's fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst my family of farmers and paramedics and regular Americans, I'm kind of the sissy in my family. — Nick Offerman

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present. — Davis Bunn

The fringes of their deserts were strewn with broken faiths. — T.E. Lawrence

A habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night ... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet. — Toni Morrison

Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime. — Stockwell Day

If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled. — Epictetus

The oath adds nothing to the obligation. For a covenant, if lawful, binds in the sight of God, without the oath, as much as with it; if unlawful, bindeth not at all, though it be confirmed with an oath. — Thomas Hobbes

If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well. — Henri Nouwen

But the "best" lies are those that look the most like the Truth. The "newest" lies are the oldest ones. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me - the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love - He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.
[October 2, 1910, interview in the NY Times Magazine] — Thomas A. Edison