Honestly Held Views Quotes & Sayings

If the ox of an Israelite bruise the ox of a Gentile, the Israelite is exempt from paying damages; but should the ox of a Gentile bruise the ox of an Israelite, the Gentile is bound to recompense him in full.' -- Bava Kama, fol. 38, Col. 2"

-- Hebraic Literature, page 31 — Maurice H. Harris

A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self - a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double, is able to watch with dispassionate curiosity as his companion struggles against the oncoming disaster, or decides to embrace it. There is a theatrical quality about all this, and during the next several days, as I went about stolidly preparing for extinction, I couldn't shake off a sense of melodrama - a melodrama in which I, the victim-to-be of self-murder, was both the solitary actor and lone member of the audience. — William Styron

God is not out to point out your flaws or tell you how bad you messed up. — Jamie Larbi

Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair. — Khalil Gibran

When I grew up, scientists were anti-social people who worked in basements and wore coats and worked with bunson burners, and now they're in our technology every day, and our technology has almost become fashion accessories. — Johnny Galecki

- 'My lord, if a man cannot express his honestly held views in the Central Criminal Court, perhaps you can advise me where else he is free to state that which he believes to be the truth? — Jeffrey Archer

Babies should enjoy the freedom to vocalize whether it be in church, a public meeting place, during a movie, or after hours when the lights are out. They have not yet learned that joy and laughter have to last a lifetime and must be conserved. — Erma Bombeck

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing. — Clint Eastwood

If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring. — Nate Silver

The value of your work is not in the dollar. It's in your word. — Jennifer Ho-Dougatz

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it. — Oscar Wilde

And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle — Theodore Roosevelt

Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY. — Billy Collins

A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left. — Solomon

As a rough rule, it seems that writers fall into two camps. There are those who delight in rousting the truth from its concealment amid pieties and convention. If they must strip-mine the world to expose its hypocrisy, they will do so, even if they leave a landscape barren of hope. Then there are those writers who prefer to remythologize life on earth, finding it rich with strange congruences and possibilities. — Will Blythe

I am only responsible for what I say.
Not what you understand....!!!"
~me..** — Me