Jorge Santa Cruz Quotes & Sayings

Secondly, what the nature of God is. Whatever that nature is discovered to be, the man who would please and obey Him must strive with all his might to be made like unto him. If the Divine is faithful, he also must be faithful; if free, he also must be free; if beneficent, he also must be beneficent; if magnanimous, he also must be magnanimous. Thus as an imitator of God must he follow Him in every deed and word. — Epictetus

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear. — Kinky Friedman

To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I'm no longer going to play thugs or debauched cops that I can't possibly make complex characters. I'm bigger than that. I owe too much to too many good people at the Goodman, Arena and Playwrights Horizons. — Isaiah Washington

The moral issues with which Marcus struggles would be, as he points out, unchanged whether the universe were mechanical and devoid of meaning or value or ruled by deity or Providence; whether the will were in fact free or determined; whether there were or were not a future life, or any even fugitive rewards and punishments at all. — Kenneth Rexroth

Every man and woman present thought how the neatly drawn lines and words upon the maps were in truth ice-covered pools and rivers, silent woods, frozen ditches and high, bare hills and every one of them thought how many sheep and cattle and wild creatures died in this season. — Susanna Clarke

Jonas stood from the bed and took two steps. He turned back and looked at Dmitri, who had stood behind him. "They're going to pay, Dmitri." Dmitri looked Jonas in the eye, took him by both shoulders, and said, "You wouldn't be from the House of Athena if you didn't make them pay." Jonas nodded and opened the door. — Erik Wecks