Fr Michael Scanlan Quotes & Sayings

The evil I'm talking about lives in us all. It takes hold in an individual, in private lives, within a family, adn then it's children who suffer most. And then, when teh conditions are right, in different countries, at different times, a terrible cruelty, a viciousness against life erupts, and everyone is surprised by the depth of hatred within himself. Then it sinks back and waits. It's something in our hearts. — Ian McEwan

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. — Brendan Behan

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives. — Julian Baggini

In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law. — Alexis De Tocqueville

That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated. — Jorge Luis Borges

I bite back a shiver as the blood rushes up to blush my cheeks and for a moment, just for this moment, I drop my bones and allow him to hold me together. — Tahereh Mafi

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due. — Robert Sheckley

When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

My life was planned by Grandfather. Except for my personal life, where he didn't have the same control. — Sadie Grubor

It is far easier to live an excellent life among your friends, when you are putting your best foot forward and are conscious of public opinion, than it is to live for Christ in your home. — Billy Graham

The cruelest, narrowest, most evil people will always rise to power because they'll always be the ones most willing to wrap themselves in the crescent flag and murder people in God's name. — Orson Scott Card

When describing me, Tracy often refers to a well-known concept of physics: 'inertia.' As Newton avers in his first law: 'An object that is not moving will not move until a force acts upon it. An object that is moving will not change its velocity until a net force acts upon it.' In other words, depending on what's happening in my life at any given moment, I can either be the laziest human being on the planet, or the busiest. I'm perfectly content to do absolutely nothing until I'm catalyzed by some person or project, and then I go nonstop until some countervailing force acts upon me, and I revert back to static mode. — Michael J. Fox