Kobinski Quotes & Sayings

The existence of God, I discovered one day, is not a problem. Whether he exists or not doesn't affect us; in the slightest, and there is no reason to worry about something that doesn't affect us. But religion on the other hand does affect us; it stuck its pointed nose into even the most hidden depths of our lives. Like an invisible policeman, it had tried to keep our existence under surveillance, to regulate with its cruel, cold, hypocritical logic. As Jupiter castrated Saturn, so the church has tried to castrate all of us. — Francisco Rebolledo

My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes. — Penelope Cruz

Does the Spearmint lose its flavor on the bedpost over night? — Ken Kesey

You can either blame everybody else or you can take a look at yourself and determine where you can improve. — Robert Kiyosaki

What was it that gave Ammu this Unsafe Edge? This air of unpredictability? It was what she had battling inside her. An unmixable mix. The infinite tenderness of motherhood and the reckless rage of a suicide bomber. — Arundhati Roy

the cottage lights — R.J. Harlick

I've always worried a lot. And frankly I'm good at it." The late Erma Bombeck, one of the funniest women ever. — Catherine Robertson

Whatever is morally wrong, is equally wrong in man and in woman and no virtue is to be cultivated in one sex, that is not equally required by the other. — Anna Brownell Jameson

I believe this is so and I'm prepared to vouch for it, because it seems to me that the meaning of man's life consists in proving to himself every minute that he's a man and not a piano key. And man will keep proving it and paying for it with his own skin; he will turn into a troglodyte if need be. And, since this is so, I cannot help rejoicing that things are still the way they are and that, for the time being, nobody knows worth a damn what determines our desires. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. — Brooks Adams

Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice. — Matt Salmon

I feel like these characters, these places, these beings and plots, and even these inanimate objects are counting on me for survival. It's my responsibility to reveal them to the world, to show my readers the names of these things, to show them their histories and stories. — Nicholas Trandahl