Gecse T Rk P Quotes & Sayings

Considering these limitations, it is quite astonishing how irreligious the Founders actually were. You might not easily guess, for example, who was the author of the following words: Oh! Lord! Do you think that a Protestant Popedom is annihilated in America? Do you recollect, or have you ever attended to the ecclesiastical Strifes in Maryland Pensilvania [sic], New York, and every part of New England? What a mercy it is that these People cannot whip and crop, and pillory and roast, as yet in the U.S.! If they could they would ... . There is a germ of religion in human nature so strong that whenever an order of men can persuade the people by flattery or terror that they have salvation at their disposal, there can be no end to fraud, violence, or usurpation. That was John Adams, in relatively mild form. — Christopher Hitchens

Women are weak, but mothers are strong. — Julie Otsuka

The funny thing is if in England, you ask a man in the street who the greatest living Darwinian is, he will say Richard Dawkins. And indeed, Dawkins has done a marvelous job of popularizing Darwinism. But Dawkins' basic theory of the gene being the object of evolution is totally non-Darwinian. — Ernst W. Mayr

Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him, — James Joyce

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love. — Socrates

Just ... tell me I'm not crazy," he whispered. "That this ... isn't as insane as I think it is"
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"I don't know ... Maybe we're both a little crazy."
"I can live with that. — Julie Kagawa

I never loved the world around me as it was. — Christian Lacroix

I like real stories. — Tim Matheson

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest. — George Farquhar

I'm an accidental entrepreneur. — Natalie Massenet

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. — Havelock Ellis

Not having to travel and being able to settle in has helped me in training life and school life. I've learned to get a grip and take care of myself. — Michael Phelps

I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me. — Woody Allen

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible. — Jonathan Sacks