March 9th Quotes & Sayings

The advocates of nuclear disarmament seem to believe that, if they could achieve their aim, war would become tolerable and decent. They would do well to read this book and ponder the fate of Dresden, where 135,000 people died as the result of an air attack with conventional weapons. On the night of March 9th, 1945, an air attack on Tokyo by American heavy bombers, using incendiary and high explosive bombs, caused the death of 83,793 people. The atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 71,379 people. So it goes. — Kurt Vonnegut

Jill had described this kind of religious upbringing as a form of mental abuse, and I returned to the point, as follows: 'You use the words religious abuse. If you were to compare the abuse of bringing up a child really to believe in hell . . . how do you think that would compare in trauma terms with sexual abuse?' She replied: 'That's a very difficult question . . . I think there are a lot of similarities actually, because it is about abuse of trust; it is about denying the child the right to feel free and open and able to relate to the world in the normal way . . . it's a form of denigration; it's a form of denial of the true self in both cases. — Richard Dawkins

God knows how many times we miss nice things near at hand! — Anuradha Bhattacharyya

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed. — Christine Lahti

Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are. — Louise Penny

I lift weights and do as much cardio as I can make myself. I'm not a big cardio fan, and I hate doing legs. — Charlie Weber

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life. — Katherine Paterson

...my soul bleeding tears of anguish — Katie MacAlister

The greatest rapper of all time died on March 9th.
God bless his soul, rest in peace, kid.
It's because of him now at least I know what beef is. — Canibus

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird. — Simon Newcomb

Archer has arrows to shoot; Sun has lights to shoot and Wise Man has thoughts to shoot! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How do you defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized. — Salman Rushdie

I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damn thing. It only leads to violence and pain. — Daniel Keyes

Every purely natural object is a conductor of divinity, and we have but to expose ourselves in a clean condition to any of these conductors, to be fed and nourished by them. Only in this way can we procure our daily spirit bread. — John Muir

Trauma is nothing more than being stuck in what you believe. — Byron Katie

Seminary also introduced me to the historical study of Jesus and Christian origins. I learned from my professors and the readings they assigned that Jesus almost certainly was not born of a virgin, did not think of himself as the Son of God, and did not see his purpose as dying for the sins of the world.. I also found the claim that Jesus and Christianity were the only way of salvation to be troublesome. — Marcus Borg

The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree. — P.G. Wodehouse