Fornicates Outdoor Quotes & Sayings

His sculpture would have joy in it, try to capture the sense of fertility of Dionysus, the nature god, the power of the intoxicating drink that enabled a man to laugh and sing and forget for a while the sorrow of his earthly miseries. And then, perhaps, at the same time he could portray the decay that came with too much forgetfulness, that he saw all around him, when man surrendered his moral and spiritual values for the pleasures of the
flesh. The Bacchus would be the central figure of his theme, a human being rather than a demigod; then there would be a child of about seven, sweet-
faced, lovable, nibbling from a bunch of grapes. His composition would have death in it too; the tiger, who liked wine and was loved by Bacchus, with the deadest, dead skin and head conceivable — Irving Stone

The Fairness Principle: When contemplating a moral action imagine that you do not know if you will be the moral doer or receiver, and when in doubt err on the side of the other person. This is based on the philosopher John Rawls's concepts of the "veil of ignorance" and the "original position" in which moral actors are ignorant of their position in society when determining rules and laws that affect everyone, because of the self-serving bias in human decision making. — Michael Shermer

There is no such thing as chance in a text. Any text is the result of a repertoire, on conscious and unconscious levels, and can only be decoded by someone privy to the same repertoire. — Ivan Angelo

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply. — Thomas Malthus

There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens. — Vance Havner

Pilate deserves our sympathies, not because he was a good though tragically mistaken man, but because we are not much better. We may believe in Jesus, but we do not believe in his ideas, at least not his ideas about violence, truth, and justice.2 — Brian Zahnd

Sojourner Truth, who squelched the heckler with an oft-quoted speech. In the first place, she said, Jesus came from "God and a woman - man had nothing to do with it."66 Secondly, Truth asserted that women were not inherently weak and helpless. Raising herself to her full height of six feet, flexing a muscled arm, and bellowing with a voice one observer likened to the apocalyptic thunders, Truth informed the audience that she could outwork, outeat, and outlast any man. Then she challenged: "Ain't I a woman?"67 — Paula J. Giddings

Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit. — Jim Rogers

People criticize a woman for everything - like, I get criticized for how my hair looks when I go grocery shopping or the fact that I don't wear makeup when I get my nails done. — Mila Kunis

Foursomes have left the first tee there and have never been seen again. They just find their shoelaces and bags. — Bob Hope

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization. — Max Baucus

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. — Claude Monet

As Susan Fiske and Kareem Johnson describe in the first two essays of this anthology, recent research in social neuroscience has revealed that prejudiced reactions are linked to rapidly activated structures in the brain that were developed long ago in our evolutionary history. Does this mean that racism is hardwired into our neural circuitry? — Jason Marsh

Brothers and sisters, with the blessings of modern technology, we can express gratitude and joy about God's great plan for His children in a way that can be heard not only around our workplace but around the world. Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It strikes me how I'm thinking like I'm not human, myself. Like I'm not one of them. — Kelsey Sutton