Ildan Softtule Quotes & Sayings

Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas. — Toni Morrison

I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say anything else to those whom we instruct in divine things, but merely command them to believe. They accuse the apostles of ignorance, labelling them barbarians, because they do not have the subtlety of eloquence; and they say that the cult of martyrs is ridiculous, considering it completely absurd for the living to seek assistance from the dead. — Theodoret

A comfortable rut and a grave are very much alike. The only real difference is the dimensions. — Ralph Compton

Never use the passive where you can use the active. — George Orwell

I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one. — Horace Walpole

In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them. — Stephen L. Carter

The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day. — Henry David Thoreau

You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself. — Laozi

Maurice was scandalized, horrified. He was shocked to the bottom of his suburban soul.... — E. M. Forster

A centuries-old message from my depths, it warned me to guard against myself, and go running in the sun. — Goliarda Sapienza

Play isn't doing what we want, but doing what we can with the materials we find along the way. — Ian Bogost

Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights. — Barbara Rosenblat

And I won't get to see Hikari or Aimi again? How can that be fair? What have I done to deserve this?"-
"It's not what you've done, Sam. It's who you are. You are destined for greater things because of who you are. — Phillip W. Simpson

My eyes are green, and in one of them there is a splash of brown - apparently it is not a colour, but a freckle! Sometimes I notice that one eyelid droops more than the other. — Rick Wakeman

Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.* — Marianne Williamson