Kolumnada Quotes & Sayings

MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it. — Rex Stout

And she also enjoyed a conversation on public questions which tended to take place in the parlour of the shop — Charles Moore

To a Christian, the dastardly liberals are not so much villains as victims. It's not their fault they're possessed by demons. But if I felt a slight diminishing of hostility, I also saw any hope of mutual accommodation go up in a blast of sulfurous smoke...these days, much of what liberals really anguish about behind closed doors is how to find common ground with people of faith. And now I realized that for at least some people, common ground will never be possible because they don't object to specific ideas that can be reframed or adjusted. They object to Satan, whose bidding we are doing. They may not hate us - they may believe they love us - but they hate him, and they won't negotiate with him either. We want to persuade them, reason with them, listen to them, and accommodate them. They want to save us. It's not even the same playing field. — Daniel Radosh

All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters. — Edgar Guest

The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study. — Ahmed Zewail

Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on him ... How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone. There is only one thing more he can do to help him endure his loneliness: he turns him away from himself, from the Master, by exhorting him to go further than he himself has done, and to "climb on the shoulders of his teacher." — Eugen Herrigel

I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after. — Edward De Bono

Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious. — Ross Perot

He softened and looked at me. "Oh, yeah, I met the right man, all right. A fucking miracle. An angel here on earth." His voice was soft as cotton and his eyes shone like diamonds. What could I say to that? — T.A. Webb

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes? — Edward Hoagland

As long as you're moving, it's easier to steer. — Anonymous

You can't take good health for granted. — Jack Osbourne

One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey. — Bill Condon

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter. — James Earl Jones