Kyra Mossbacher Quotes & Sayings

It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views. — Jeffrey Toobin

Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind. — Norman Vincent Peale

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. — Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield

Finish is a laundry powder. I feel guilty when I finish a book. — Jeremy Lee

but that was before my mom died, which also happened to be the day I was born. — Stormy Smith

When I was young, I read everything I could lay my hands on, but the Scots in my storybooks spent their time fighting glorious battles, rowing across lochs, or escaping over moors of purple heather. Even those Scots were hard to find. For at school, we recited poetry according to the set texts the teachers taught us. — Theresa Breslin

If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America". — Frederick Lenz

I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men. — Tom Robbins

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind. — Maya Angelou

The things greater than us, Thora, they're not impossible. It's just fear talking, telling you that you can't when you can. I know you can. — Krista Ritchie

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things. — Martin Luther

Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade. — P. J. O'Rourke

The significant thing about Edwards is the way he enters into the tradition, infuses it with his personality and makes it live. The vitality of his thought gives to its product the value of unique creation. Two qualities in him especially contribute to this result, large constructive imagination and a marvelously acute power of abstract reasoning. With the vision of the seer he looks steadily upon his world, which is the world of all time and space and existence, and sees it as a whole; God and souls are in it the great realities, and the transactions between them the great business in which all its movement is concerned. — H. Norman Gardiner