Equinal Quotes & Sayings

On the other hand, Protestantism's shedding away of authority, as evidenced by my mother's proclamation that I needn't go to church or listen to a preacher to achieve salvation, inspires self-reliance - along with a dangerous disregard for expertise. So the impulse that leads to democracy can also be the downside of democracy - namely, a suspicion of people who know what they are talking about. It's why in U.S. presidential elections the American people will elect a wisecracking good ol'boy who's fun in a malt shop instead of a serious thinker who actually knows some of the pompous, brainy stuff that might actually get fewer people laid off or killed. — Sarah Vowell

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people. — Heinrich Heine

Love is the most mysterious force in the universe.
It locks two souls together across space and time.
Once that spark is ignited it consumes all else.
It was that shard of light that transformed a dark soul forever.
Now let that love burn bright like a sun for eternity ... — Kion Ahadi

Leaps look good in the movies, but in fact, success is mostly about finding a path and walking it one step at a time. — Seth

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of. — Ed Harris

Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction to his parents' fighting: his laziness, his overachieving, his tendency to isolate, his tendency to seduce, his hypochondria, his sense of invulnerability, his self-loathing, his narcissism. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things. — Rodney Carrington

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida. — Karen Russell

I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working. — Tracy Morgan

I definitely want to grow intelligently, but I do want to stay a kid forever! — Levi Miller

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation. — Tom Tancredo

suddenly understood perfectly why Abraham had agreed to sacrifice Isaac, his son, when the Lord commanded him to do so. It was not obedience. It was not even to put the love of God above the love of his son. Abraham was testing God. By denying the sacrifice at the last moment, by stopping the knife, God had earned the right - in Abraham's eyes and the hearts of his offspring - to become the God of Abraham. Sol — Dan Simmons