Ferine Quotes & Sayings

The church doesn't have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church. — James Emery White

George W. Bush will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel. — Joe Klein

If an organ gets a "dis-ease" you want to care for it like a wounded friend, not an enemy who's turned against you. — Judith Orloff

Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury. — H.L. Mencken

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold. — John Heywood

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home. — Thomas Paine

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be. — Hillary Clinton

Do not fear people with Autism, embrace them, Do not spite people with Autism unite them, Do not deny people with Autism accept them for then their abilities will shine — Paul Isaacs

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'. — Warren Littlefield

Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling. — Michael Beck

Wakens the ferine strain. — Jack London

We call love what binds us to certain creatures only by reference to a collective way of seeing for which books and legends are responsible. — Albert Camus

Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain. — Jack London

Great teachers are wonderful. They change lives. We need them. The problem is that most schools don't like great teachers. They're organized to stamp them out, bore them, bureaucratize them, and make them average. Why — Seth Godin

When his eyes meet mine through the crowded sanctuary, I know it was only a matter of time before we collide. — Harper Sloan

I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more. — Dahlia Lithwick

How, for example, after liberating themselves from servitude to the religion of God, the creator of the world and of Adam, which alone could hold them within duty and, therefore, within society, did the impious life of those first men from whom the gentile nations arose bring them to disperse in a ferine wandering through the great forest of the earth, grown dense through saturation by the waters of the Flood? And how, constrained to seek food and water and, even more, to save themselves from the wild animals in which the great forest must unfortunately have abounded, with men frequently abandoning their women and mothers their children, and with no way of reuniting, did their descendants gradually come to forget the language of Adam and, without language or any thought other than that of satisfying their hunger, thirst and the foment of their lust, deaden all sense of humanity? — Giambattista Vico

The sensus communis plays no part in Kant - not even in the logical sense. What Kant treats in the transcendental doctrine of judgment - i.e., the doctrine of schematism and the principles - no longer has anything to do with the sensus communis.57 For here we are concerned with concepts that are supposed to refer to their objects a priori, and not with the subsumption of the particular under the universal. — Hans-Georg Gadamer