Knoblock And Badia Quotes & Sayings

I am what you call a non-believer. I don't even want to say I'm an atheist because frankly I don't want to join their club either. But the point is, I am a fallen catholic, I'm not religious, and that's all well and good. — Kathy Griffin

We have a legal system, and this is not something that happens all the time. We have capital punishment. America has capital punishment. Iran has capital punishment. Iran hangs people and leaves their bodies hanging on cranes. Iran put to death more than a thousand people last year. I don't see EU reporting on it. — Adel Al-Jubeir

The catacombs where ghostly bodies lie. In the silence you hear the screams go by. — Jackie Mae

A person who can, within a year, solve x2 - 92y2 = 1 is a mathematician. — Brahmagupta

Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake. — Franz Von Papen

He blinked at me lazily and I blinked back at half speed, an exchange I later learned was called a cat kiss. — Sue Grafton

Someone told me recently that a commentator or some sort had said, "The United States is in spiritual free-fall." When people make such remarks, such appalling judgements, they never include themselves, their friends, those with whom they agree. They have drawn, as they say, a bright line between an "us" and a "them." Those on the other side of the line are assumed to be unworthy of respect or hearing, and are in fact to be regarded as a huge problem to the "us" who presume to judge "them." This tedious pattern has repeated itself endlessly through human history and is, as I have said, the end of community and the beginning of tribalism. — Marilynne Robinson

If you're middle aged ... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums. — Elizabeth Perkins

A community best serves itself when it truly serves the awakening of the unique story trying to come to life through each person born. — Michael Meade

Of course you aren't scared of me. I'm not the wolf. You are. — Stylo Fantome

It was not the sorrow of the world that broke the heart of Christ, but its wickedness. He was equal to its sorrow ... He began by being the world's healer. But what broke him was its sin. — P.T. Forsyth

Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger ... and more concentrated. — Henri Matisse