Latticework Porch Quotes & Sayings

[Justice] Murphy... who ruled against the state [anti-sodomy] law... didn't see why the Supreme Court had to dwell on the historical background of sodomy laws [before striking them down]. All one really had to know to decide the case, he reasoned, was that Texas and its legions of moralizers let people have sex with animals. End of story. — Dale Carpenter

Sometimes Christians speak of each decision of their lives as though they were launching a moon-shot where a single miscalculation would send the capsule into a trackless void. Even space scientist do better than that, correcting the flight of their space-probes by radioed signals. God does much better. He knows that we are often incapable of distinguishing trivial decisions from momentous ones, and that we are foolish and imperceptive. He knows---- and keeps us in his hand. — Edmund P. Clowney

It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work. — A.J.P. Taylor

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. — Pierre Beaumarchais

If you've got red hair, try washing it in cranberry juice. And, if you're blonde, a champagne rinse can work wonders. — Nicole Kidman

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud. — David Trimble

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. — Andre Gide

Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will rise until it matches the 3,000-degree rarified outer layers of the expanded Sun ... But not to worry. We will surely go extinct for some other reason long before this scenario unfolds. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good. — Pope Benedict XVI

It was a state of aloneness. It was the kind of place that started shooting political prisoners because it suspected that they would enjoy solitary confinement and internal exile too much. — Will Wiles

He doesn't sound like a guy who's done a onesome, let alone a threesome. — Adam Carolla

And the poser has a girlfriend. Ten years younger. The Blond Weed, Ove calls her. Tottering around the streets like an inebriated panda on heels as long as box wrenches, with clown paint all over her face and sunglasses so big that one can't tell whether they're a pair of glasses or some kind of helmet. She also has one of those handbag animals, running about off the leash and pissing on the paving stones outside Ove's house. She thinks Ove doesn't notice, but Ove always notices. — Fredrik Backman

Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation. — James H. Cone

But he hasn't got anything on! the whole town cried out at last. — Hans Christian Andersen