Milinkovich Cycle Quotes & Sayings

I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for working on the Sabbath or switching on a light on the Sabbath. So the point is that you can find good bits of the Bible but you have to cherry-pick, you have reject the nasty bits and pick the nice bits. — Richard Dawkins

My head and shoulders melted first, followed by my hips and knees. Before long I was a puddle, soaking into the pretty cotton prints. I drenched the quilt she never finished, rusted the metal parts of her sewing machine. I was pure liquid loss, then, for an hour or two. My grandmother, my grandmother. Gone forever, though I could smell her Chanel perfume on the fabrics. — E. Lockhart

Violence is anything an airplane can do to a cloud — Lionel Shriver

What a thrilling future for those of us who know that some day we will populate the kingdom of God. — Billy Graham

Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote. — E.B. White

Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away ... but certainly not all. — Mike Wilson

I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you. — Chris Matthews

Every woman is the gift of a world to me. — Heinrich Heine

When you are grateful,' Brother Steindl-Rast explained, 'you are not fearful, and when you are not fearful, you are not violent. When you are grateful, you act out of a sense of enough and not out of a sense of scarcity, and you are willing to share. If you are grateful, you are enjoying the differences between people and respectful to all people. The grateful world is a world of joyful people. Grateful people are joyful people. A grateful world is a happy world. — Douglas Carlton Abrams

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols. — Charles Jencks

My dad almost died as a child from water-borne diseases in Ethiopia, and he had talked to me about digging a well in Ethiopia and I thought, I have too many friends and great people in my life that would be concerned with this subject of clean water. — Kenna

Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it. — Steven Soderbergh

In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I'll reply: Eden burns. — Rainer Maria Rilke