Edrington Schirmer Quotes & Sayings

Do you ever wonder why a battered wife stays with her husband? Why people continue to spend money they don't have even though they know they are deeply in debt? Why some keep jamming food in their mouths when they're already overweight? Why do people stay in bad relationships? Why are some people still racist? Why do people still drink and drive? You'd think the response to all these things would be obvious and cause them to scream, "Duh, of course I need to change this." Why do we keep doing church the same way even when we know it's in critical decline? Why do paid church leaders spend so much time preparing for a 90-minute service for Christians who have heard it all before? Why do we still call our message the good news when it clearly seems to be bad news or no news to Sojourners? Why do we think Pharisees are only found in the Bible? Why is returning to a simpler form of ancient church so hard to grasp? — Hugh Halter

The afterlife I'm not so sure about. So, I don't understand why you'd want to hurt other people in thinking that you'll go on in the afterlife to have bliss. I just don't understand it. — Charlie Benante

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. — Thomas Paine

Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it ... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me. — Jason Reitman

The true prayer is only of thankfulness; just a simple thank you is enough. — Osho

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in. — Richard Gere

I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door. — Nick Hornby

But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate. — Henry David Thoreau

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. — Annette Funicello

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery. — Grant Morrison

'The Hobbit's a big gig. It's a huge circus that you become a part of. — Martin Freeman

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any. — Mahatma Gandhi

Early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day's march on him. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically. — James Joyce

I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are — Deepak Chopra