Frankenstein Mary Shelley Chapter 11 Quotes & Sayings

All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely. — H.L. Mencken

She has the gift of accepting her life. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet. — Andrew Wylie

Your faith provides you focus and vision for your life. It is your true north compass and GPS of self-awareness and self-management. Your faith is your lens to focus on how your talents, skills, gifts, and abilities will allow you to live on purpose — Thomas Narofsky

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before. — Steve Earle

(4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man's loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will. — Peter Kreeft

Whereas once medieval Europe had adhered to a common Catholic religion, a common Latin language, and common well-spiced cuisine (at least, for the elite), the balkanization of the Christian world along national lines now meant that nations could no longer gather around the same table as easily as before. Even though it would take some years, the Europe-wide fashion for spices-as much as Latin-would be a casualty of Martin Luther's squabble with the bishop of Rome. — Michael Krondl

Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they are gods and animals. In the Garden, after all, the snake approached God's image-bearer, directing her as though he had dominion over her (when it was, in fact, the other way around). He treated her as an animal, and she didn't even see it. At the same time, the old dragon appealed to her to transcend the limits of her dignity. If she would reach for the forbidden, she would be "like God, knowing good and evil." He suggested that she was more than a human; she was a goddess. — Russell D. Moore

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth. — Hunter S. Thompson

Having a delightful time can be more fatiguing than one would believe. — Emily Hendrickson

You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models. — Charlie Munger

This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics. — George F. R. Ellis

I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance. — James Cash Penney

Daytime Bartender Moonlights as a madman. Now there's a novel, — Kimberly Bettes

The first 'Star Wars' film was enormously important. I grew up right smack-bang in the sweet spot of all of those. It's true cinema magic. It's fair to say that, as a kid, I would have been very happy to be Han Solo, and I would have been happy to have gone out with Princess Leia. — Ben Mendelsohn