Laudare Sunday Quotes & Sayings

If in the sex scene you happen to be naked in front of a lot of other people you've just got to put that aside, in the same way that you have to put that aside in a fully-clothed intense dialogue scene because you're entering into that particular imaginative state of play. — Geoffrey Rush

This happened not once, but twice - first with Martin Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, and then with his pupil Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. (We discuss Sartre in the next section.) — Christopher Panza

A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation need not be a mob of slaves, clinging to one another through fear, and for the most part incapable of self-government, and begging to be led; but it might consist of vigorous self-reliant men, knit to one another by innumerable ties, into a strong, tense, and elastic organisation. — Francis Galton

Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket. — Winfield Scott Hancock

In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man; they must be known by rational investigation or historical inquiry. — Samuel Johnson

Terri threw up her hands. — Bex Aaron

When your parents are dead your own death faces you. — Lucia Berlin

We must be inclined to believe it because it has been repeated so often, but let's think it through again. — Daniel Kahneman

And don't try to sell me any crap about the kindly demon. I know three of you now, and you are all evil, insane, or just plain nasty. — Kim Harrison

O love, fled me - or do telepathies cross sympathetically in the night? — Jack Kerouac

I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her blank stares and her lashing out in some interviews, I think, gave voters pause about her, too. — Nicolle Wallace

8 is just an infinity symbol the right way up. — Kirsty Eagar