Fatal Inventions Quotes & Sayings

When Gore Vidal was coming up, there were three major channels, and he could count on a big audience when he debated someone like William F. Buckley on TV. — Jay Parini

A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity. — Janet Evanovich

Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing. — Leila Janah

I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons. — Gary Oldman

The kingdom is a spirit-like thing, and cannot be got by active doing. — Lao-Tzu

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation from suffering and toward peace and compassion, or in the direction of affliction and misery. What is it that we really want deep in our heart? Is it money, fame, power? Or is it finding inner peace, being able to live life fully and enjoy the present moment? — Nhat Hanh

Much of his friendship with Jude, it often seemed, was not letting himself ask the questions he knew he ought to, because he was afraid of the answers. — Hanya Yanagihara

Damen, seriously, you must know I don't love you because you're immortal, I love you because you're you. — Alyson Noel

There is nothing which Nature so clearly reveals, and upon which science so strongly insists, as the universal reign of law, absolute, universal, invariable law ... Not one jot or tittle of the laws of Nature are unfulfilled. I do not believe it is possible to state this fact too strongly ... Everything happens according to law, and, since law is the expression of Divine will, everything happens according to Divine will, i.e. is in some sense ordained, decreed. — Joseph LeConte

We all have the same Rislampa/Har paper lamps made from wire and environmentally friendly unbleached paper. Mine are confetti. — Chuck Palahniuk

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form. — Idries Shah

When your heart breaks and you lose absolutely everything you have left in life. The only thing you can do is cry. — Jay McLean

Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another. — Thomas Jefferson