Massoudian Quotes & Sayings

The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made. — Christopher Hitchens

I was surprised he didn't just spit the nails into the wood like Popeye the Sailor Man. — Josh Lanyon

He cocked his head to the side."Anything else your allergic to?"
"Besides penicillin and guys who bust into my apartment? No. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The idea that I am a bad person or exhibiting poor character traits by my disdain for someone can be irrelevant and false. If I meet someone I immediately dislike, for what ever reason, but I am polite and courteous, helpful and pleasant then I have been polite, courteous, helpful and pleasant. This is not at all the same as then finding someone else to gossip with and verbalize my disdain for that person. It is certainly not the same as being outright rude to that person. What I have thought is of no consequence here. My actions show who I am, not my thoughts. The same can be said of the basic premise of being spiritual itself. If I seek to be spiritual and yet find no time in my life for reflection on what this should and does mean to me am I being spiritual at all? The actions we relate to as being spiritual are the natural outcome of such reflection in our lives. When we are true to our own sense of integrity we naturally find compassion for others. — David Carlyle

Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-"
"SIMON! — Cassandra Clare

Voltaire was deeply impressed by it and cited it often. — Wendy Doniger

Insist that the work be done in very truth and it will be done. The cross is rough, and it is deadly, but it is effective. — A.W. Tozer

So I've tried to be this very eccentric character, and that works very well if you want to be a painter which I did once upon a time, if you want to be a musician which I did once upon a time. But if you want to make movies and you want to make challenging movies, you've got to be the sanest person in the room. — Tony Kaye

It is evident that the State needs the intellectuals; it is not so evident why intellectuals need the State. — Murray N. Rothbard

I am a performing artist; I perform admiration.
'Come with me', I want my poems to say. 'And do the same — Mary Oliver