Lisa The Skeptic Quotes & Sayings

During all the months when she had been absent, there were so many things I have saved up to tell her, so many bits of news about the house and the neighborhood and friends and work and family, but now they seemed inconsequential. Puny. Move far enough away from an event ans it sort of levels out, so to speak - settles into the general landscape. — Anne Tyler

The poor we have always with us, and the purpose of the Lord in providing the poor is to enable us of the better classes to amuse ourselves by investigating them and uplifting them and at dinners telling how charitable we are. The poor don't like it much. They have no gratitude. They would rather be uplifters themselves. But if they are taken firmly in hand they can be kept reasonably dependent and interesting for years. — Sinclair Lewis

A bureacrat armed with a computer is the unacknowledged legislator of our age, and a terrible burden to bear. We cannot dismiss the possibility that, if Adolf Eichmann had been able to say that it was not he but a battary of computers that directed the Jews to the appropriate crematoria, he may never have been asked to answer for his actions. — Neil Postman

I have come not to teach but to awaken. — Meher Baba

It unnerved her, the gap between who he appeared to be and the person he held inside him. — Lauren Groff

When the sun shines, you let it shine on you — Gayle Forman

IAR is policy, always has been. — Jimmy Wales

Hate me if you must, but know that I will never hate you. — James Frey

It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long. — Jonathan Ames

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that. — Laurie Anderson

In some causes silence is dangerous. — Saint Ambrose

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind. — Otto Weininger

When I was doing 'Neighbours,' I was aiming to go to university, then go to med school, but I realised I could make a better living from acting. — Jesse Spencer

You can only really appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down. — Christina Engela

The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. — Socrates