Elitag Quotes & Sayings

The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning. It was the first time that the Christian church did not have the capacity to keep itself unified as it recast itself, so it split into Protestant and Catholic traditions. — John Shelby Spong

Nothing to say. I used to be a ghostwriter for a publisher.'
'Medieval stuff?'
'Eighty-page love stories. You have this guy, untrustworthy but good in bed, and this girl, radiant but innocent. In the end they fall madly in love and it's incredibly boring. The story doesn't say when they split up.'
'Of course not,' said Mathias — Fred Vargas

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. — Al Capp

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. — Charles Dudley Warner

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking. — Brendan Myers

Carved over the portal of the Temple of Isis: 'I am whatever has been, is, or ever will be; and my veil no man hath yet lifted. — Anonymous

Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and doing cretinous steps to debauched disco music. — Cynthia Heimel

I sympathize with people who want to ban guns, but I can't agree with them. We have to be careful in our zeal to abolish guns that we don't wind up with counter-productive legislation that will leave armed only the people most likely to do harm with them. — Hugh Downs

A private victory leads to a public victory and a corporate blessing, because God turns His face toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking. — Bill Johnson

I can't stay away from you," he whispers ... "Don't stay away from me, then," I whisper back ... — Cat Patrick

And I envy the intransigence of my own
Countrymen who shoot to kill and never
See the victim's face become their own
Or find his motive sabotage their motives. — Louis MacNeice

There are six R's. — Louis Tomlinson

The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen. There are other people who are slowly becoming Christians though they do not yet call themselves so. — C.S. Lewis

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever. — Sally Field