Edgar Sawtelle Claude Quotes & Sayings

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other. — William James

In the 1950s, Pakistan allied with the United States in something called the Central Treaty Organization. We were lined up with, at that time, Iran, ruled by the Shah, and Pakistan and Turkey as a southward shield against Soviet expansion toward the warm waters of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. It was part of the containment strategy. — Wesley Clark

Politics
How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?
Yet here's a travelled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war's alarms,
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms! — W.B.Yeats

People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell. — Anne-Marie Duff

Education reform doesn't come cheap. But the price of ignorance is far, far greater — Rania Al-Abdullah

What would one do if one were forced to choose between saving an innocent child's life or engaging in unchaste behavior? This is, after all, the choice that some unfortunate women are put to - sell their bodies, or see their children starve. — Courtney Milan

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone. — Edith Hamilton

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran

Restraint is totally the wrong way to go when the man of your dreams is licking your pussy like it's made of spun sugar. — Ainsley Booth

It's weird how one moment can change everything. Forever. — Cindi Madsen