Gil John Biggs Quotes & Sayings

The unique impression of Jesus upon mankind - whose name is not so much written as ploughed into the history of the world - is proof of the subtle virtue of this infusion. Jesus belonged to the race of prophets. He saw with open eyes the mystery of the soul. One man was true to what is in you and me. He, as I think, is the only soul in history who has appreciated the worth of man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Suddenly I realized we must take care of things just because they exist. — Maura O'Halloran

[Iranians] are a sponsor of terrorism around the world and we have to address that. — Bernie Sanders

You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating. — William Shakespeare

Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity. — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. — Jerzy Kosinski

Greatness of character consists in having one's feelings under control. And even without any pleasure in this restraint, but merely because. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so language for me doesn't reflect the world, it extends the world, so that it becomes larger and more fantastic and less mired in this school shooting bullshit. It actually builds a future - that's how evolution occurs. — Blake Butler

What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. — George Eliot

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform. — Henry David Thoreau

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men. — Desmond Tutu

In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil. — Pope Benedict XVI