Leurda Quotes & Sayings

I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give you respect if you don't deserve it just because you say something. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind. — George Carlin

From a logical point of view, anyone
who sets out to create a Great Civilization ought to begin with people, with training cadres of experts
in order to form a native intelligentsia. But it was precisely that kind of thinking that was unacceptable. Open new universities and polytechnics, every one a hornets' nest, every student a rebel, a good-for-nothing, a freethinker? — Ryszard Kapuscinski

One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this, because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into action. — Simone Weil

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. — Edgar Allan Poe

I'm being rather a brute to you, aren't I?" he said; "this isn't your idea of a proposal. We ought to be in a conservatory, you in a white frock with a rose in your hand, and a violin playing a waltz in the distance. And I should make violent love to you behind a palm tree. You would feel then you were getting your money's worth. Poor darling, — Daphne Du Maurier

If we must have a Jesus let us have a legitimate Jesus. — James Joyce

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. — B.C. Forbes