Maribito Quotes & Sayings

Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God. — James MacDonald

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, "This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?" Instead they say, "No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way." A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. — Carl Sagan

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it. — Marie Curie

I first started going to Chelsea games in the mid-Nineties when I lived off the North End Road, ten minutes' walk from Stamford Bridge. — George Osborne

I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration. — Aziz Ansari

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath. — George Carlin

Love is a momentary upwelling of three tightly interwoven events: First, a sharing of one or more positive emotions between you and another; second, a synchrony between your and the other person's biochemistry and behaviors; and third, a reflected motive to invest in each other's well-being that brings mutual care — Barbara Fredrickson

But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all? — Libba Bray

But physicians don't really save lives, of course, we prolong them; — Robert Charles Wilson

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era. — Abdullah Ocalan

It is unbelievable what a person of prayer can achieve if he would but close the doors behind him. — Soren Kierkegaard

It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver. — Saint Augustine

The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930) — Philip Wylie

Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children. — Mason Cooley

Our ownership in Christ is documented in the Word of God, and our names are registered in the Lamb's Book of Life. — David Jeremiah