Freethought Radio Quotes & Sayings

Rage has such focus. It can't go on forever, but it's invigorating. — Siri Hustvedt

We need to recognise that the whole edifice of our fifth estate, of our journalism, has been built on a foundation of newspaper journalism and that that foundation is crumbling. The management of the media companies will deny that the end is nigh. I hope they are right. — Malcolm Turnbull

Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration. — George Arthur Buttrick

Then what I know now. Which phrase is used a lot. — Lee Child

I try to spend a lot of time with people outside my direct reports. The view from the top is totally distorted. If you only spend time with your directs, you have no perspective on what's really going on. — Dick Costolo

... I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people ... who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born "islomanes" ... are direct descendents of the Atlanteans — Lawrence Durrell

The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy. — Rob Nilsson

Are we going to argue or have pretend sex?"
Wesley exhaled. "Pretend sex, I guess. What am I doing?"
"Sleeping in bed. She's sleeping on the floor."
"He makes her sleep on the floor?"
"He gives her a blanket."
"Very romantic. — Tiffany Reisz

But before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of Education and knowledge must become so general as to raise the lower ranks of Society nearer to the higher. The Education of a Nation, instead of being confined to a few schools & Universities, for the instruction of the few, must become the National Care and expence, for the information of the Many. — John Adams