Great Diatribes Quotes & Sayings

In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life. — Denis Leary

I don't think we interbred with the Neanderthals at all. There are some people who think that there was some level of interbreeding. I think that we look so biologically different, that we looked and we acted so different, and we culturally were so different that we would not have had interbreeding between two species. — Donald Johanson

Why would prophetic diatribes against the wealthy coincide with prophetic diatribes against the worship of gods other than Yahweh? Maybe because of the natural connection between resentment of Israel's upper class and opposition to the internationalism that, as we've seen, was linked to alien gods. Archaeological excavations show Hosea's era to be a time of great economic inequality among Israelites. It was also a time of expanding international trade, 35 and it could not have escaped the attention of the poor that the rich were closely tied to that trade - not just because they controlled it and profited from it, but because so many pricey imports wound up in their homes. 36 — Robert Wright

Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage. — Jeremy Collier

I was learning the hard way that the gospel alone can free us from our addiction to being liked - that Jesus measured up for us so that we wouldn't have to live under the enslaving pressure of measuring up for others. — Tullian Tchividjian

I felt a tap on my shoulder. I knew it was him. My skin told me. — Alice Clayton

But the western mind can't bear an opt- out option. we're going to have to re-fight the Battle of the Little Bighorn to preserve the right to opt-out, or your grandchildren and mine will have no choice but to eat amalgamated, irradiated, genetically prostituted, bar-coded, adulterated fecal spam from the centralized processing conglomerate. Joel Salatin — Michael Pollan

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from. — Werner Erhard

No man is worth the pain you're putting yourself through. Don't wither away because of someone who is beneath you. — Jennifer Foor

The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society. — Pema Chodron

Belief is a pretty fragile thing, which is probably why most people guard it so carefully. — David McRaney

Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away. — Alexis Carrel

I do go back to Ireland, and I'll probably be doing a film in Ireland in January, and I guess that kind of keeps me classified as 'the Irish actor,' but the last four or five projects that I've been in are either American or English, so I don't feel terribly trapped in that. But sometimes, yeah, you would like to not be called 'the Irish actor.' You'd prefer to just be called 'the actor.' — Colm Meaney

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters. — Lois McMaster Bujold

There's nothing creepier than having a psychotic Apollyon caged in the basement. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

If you love peanut butter pie, you are either Dolly Parton or someone who loves her. — Kate Lebo