Lroiu Quotes & Sayings

Spirituality, without the Holy Spirit, is demonic. — Mark Driscoll

Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest. — Edgar Allan Poe

There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don't worry, people are still fucking crazy. — Marisha Pessl

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats. — Timothy Garton Ash

If we think that innovation comes from a lone genius inventing a new technology from scratch, that model naturally steers us toward certain policy decisions, like stronger patent protection. But if we think that innovation comes out of collaborative networks, then we want to support different policies and organizational forms: less rigid patent laws, open standards, employee participation in stock plans, cross-disciplinary connections. — Steven Johnson

She would never blame him for being the ineffectual idler so long as he did it sincerely, from the attitude that nothing much was worth doing — F Scott Fitzgerald

I don't want to earn my living, I want to live. — Oscar Wilde

I've always maintained my name will not define my films, my films will define my name. But I wish I was called Steve, or something else. — McG

All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die. — Evel Knievel

I don't think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn't have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don't think you can ever have too much. — Courtney Love

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research. — Rolf-Dieter Heuer

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event. — Geraldine Jewsbury

Of course it's possible for political essays to be artful. I just want to call into question the dominance of content over form in the history of the essay. I want us to recognize that there's art involved in making this stuff, because we still don't approach the constructed nature of the essay with the same appreciation that we do poetry or fiction. — John D'Agata

What Joan impressed on the men by her faith and her actions, then, had more to do with the things of God that the machinery of war or prevailing politics. For her the struggle against English occupation and the eventual permanent establishment of French sovereignty were matters of justice, and justice was regarded as a major virtue in the Middle Ages. From justice came the origins of chivalry, which was about much more than mere courtesy: it concerned the order of a sovereign society and its place in the economy of God's plan for the world. — Donald Spoto