Lacava Auto Quotes & Sayings

He weighs the volume in his hand; this one has been the center of the whirlwind. Then DRUMMOND notices the Bible on the JUDGE's bench. He picks up the Bible in his other hand; he looks from one volume to the other, balancing them thoughtfully, as if his hands were scales. He half-smiles, half-shrugs. Then DRUMMOND slaps the two books together and jams them in his brief case, side by side. Slowly, he climbs to the street level and crosses the empty square. — Jerome Lawrence

Most people argue over who's right, not about what the truth is. — Bob Saget

The patterns that are normalized in the family - the whole idea that some people cook and some people eat, that some listen and others talk, and even that some people control others in very economic or even violent ways - that kind of hierarchy is what makes us vulnerable to believing in class hierarchy, to believing in racial hierarchy, and so on. — Gloria Steinem

I don't know if humor has a place for it but being light hearted does and not to take it too seriously. — John Assaraf

History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws. — Auguste Comte

Our insistence on being different from everything around us is one of the greatest mistakes of mankind. We stubbornly maintain an illusory distinction that sets us apart from rock and ice, water and fire, plant and animal. Both religion and rationality try to explain it through an elaborate vocabulary of separation - soul, atman, spirit, ghosts in the machine or simply the idea of selfhood. We have dreamed up gods so that we can reassure ourselves that somewhere, someday, somehow, after this life is over, something awaits us: a presence that recognizes who we are. But if we approach a mountain instead, accepting that we are nothing more or less than an integral part of its existence, our ego merges with the nature of the mountain. In — Stephen Alter

I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and that's what I do. Hey, so does John Irving. — Caroline Leavitt

Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company. — John Stuart Mill

Yes, she'd made a mistake ... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors. — Terry Pratchett

My ideas about God were formed in childhood and did not keep abreast of my growing knowledge in other disciplines. I — Karen Armstrong

Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances. — Eugene H. Peterson

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood. — Lucan

Working in factories and things like that, it just puts a little hair on your chest. — Frank Fairfield

What's improper about it?" retorted the clerk. "Everybody does it in Paris!" It was an irresistible and conclusive argument. — Gustave Flaubert