Horning Speakers Quotes & Sayings

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. — Nathan Hale

When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good is, and if you don't have a sense of what the common good is, then at least give to what you think your specific goods are. — Lewis Black

I always like to play with a lot of color. Color is great. — Olivia Palermo

Prayer is not only for answers but a spiritual act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The tarot is sacred. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact. — Athol Fugard

I'm weary of conjectures. — Various

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought. — William Kristol

For as grateful as she feels for the company of the Nandis and Dr. Gupta, these acquaintances are only substitutes for the people who really ought to be surrounding them. Without a single grandparent or parent or uncle or aunt at her side, the baby's birth, like most everything else in America, feels somehow haphazard, only half true. — Jhumpa Lahiri

It's not poetry. It's not metaphor. It's instructions. — John Green

There is nothing to fear on earth but sin. Prison and death are nothing compared to a guilty conscience. If we are destined to suffer unjustly, if all the world forsake us, God will not. Whatever happens, then, let us put our trust in God. — Christoph Von Schmid

Bowie Comeback Makes Top 10 Singles Chart 2.52M — Alain De Botton

Before I give you a blessing, I ask you for a favor: I want you to bless me. — Pope Francis

One could argue that the clash of monotheisms is the inevitable result of monotheism itself. Whereas a religion of many gods posits many myths to describe the human condition, a religion of one god tends to be monomythic; it not only rejects all other gods, it rejects all other explanations for God. If there is only one God, then there may be only one truth, and that can easily lead to bloody conflicts of irreconcilable absolutisms. — Reza Aslan

There's a reason it's called 'girls gone wild' and not 'women gone wild'. When girls go wild, they show their tits. When women go wild, they kill men and drown their kids in a tub. — Louis C.K.