Goodbye 2012 Welcome 2013 Quotes & Sayings

and others all agreed that Acts was pretty much an historical novel, much like the so-called Apocryphal Acts, and that it was written in the second century. There is virtually no historical value to it, but it is rich in edifying propaganda, its author having extensively rewritten sources that seem to include Homer, Virgil, Euripides, Josephus, and the Septuagint, creating a revisionist version of early Christianity in the golden age of its origin. — Robert M. Price

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people? — Frank Borman

Humility is the forgetfulness of self. — Thomas Keating

You never can tell
From a Minnipin's hide
What color he is
Down deep inside. — Carol Kendall

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler. — Paul Theroux

Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do archaeology, and then the time came for me to actually be in the field, and it was excruciatingly boring. Excavation is really, really boring. — Gail Carriger

Do you think me, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? — Charlotte Bronte

Cash-for-Clunkers program was a stupid idea. — Jim DeMint

[on the Victim Mentality] It takes a great level of intelligence to maintain a thinking process as stupid as this. Because it is such a great undertaking, we take pride in it. It highlights our intellect. Too bad it also highlights our lack of wisdom. For all our twisting, wringing, stretching, and stuffing, we only contort ourselves. — David G. Allen

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. — Charlotte Gainsbourg