Kavalai Vendam Quotes & Sayings

The transformation of the Nazarean into a divine, preexistent, literal son of God whose death and resurrection launch a new genus of eternal beings responsible for judging the world has no basis in any writings about Jesus that are even remotely contemporary with Paul's (a firm indication that Paul's Christ was likely his own creation). — Reza Aslan

The ideal of the 11th/17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of atoms. This idea was extended by people like Descartes who saw the human body itself as nothing but a machine. Chemists tried to study chemical reaction in this light and reduce chemistry to a form of physics, and biologists tried to reduce their science to simply chemical reactions and then finally to the movement of physical particles. The idea of reductionsm which is innate to modern science and which was only fortified by the tehory of evolution could be described as the reduction fo the spirit to the psyche, the psyche to biological activity, life to lifeless matter and lifeless matter to purely quantitative particles or bundles of energy whose movements can be measured and quantified. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

There is no winner or loser - just one family, the U.M.P. The time for internal squabbles is behind us. — Jean-Francois Cope

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore. — Larry McMurtry

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience everything. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws. — Scott McClellan

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within your means. — Heber J. Grant

One intense hour is worth a dreamy day. — Mary Kay Ash

Oh well, this is only temporary. Everything will be better someday. I'll make it better. After all, I'm young yet. — Betty Smith

Circumstances cannot change the character of God. — Rick Warren

Two women, one nigra and one white, whose voices were part of me, whose hands had comforted, soothed, and taught. One a pine-knot torch and the other a scented beeswax candle against the darkness of my ignorance and fear. Both gone. — Ann Rinaldi

Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country. — Giuseppe Garibaldi