Mursalat Quotes & Sayings

St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence. — Eugene Kennedy

There's no such thing as a non-final cut director. — Abel Ferrara

Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth. — Halldor Laxness

People treat you differently when they think you are too young to know what you want. — Susan Meissner

However, by carefully noting Eve's inaccurate quotation of God's prohibition a few verses later, Bonchek shows that by "exaggerating the actual prohibition (from one tree to 'every tree of the garden'), the serpent created a new, but lopsided, frame of reference," a frame that catches Eve off guard and slyly manipulates her into ultimately deciding on a course of action she would not have agreed upon otherwise. Eve — Bradley J. Kramer

What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool that they use against us is preaching in the name of faith and religion against the progressive movement of our homeland ... They ought to be uprooted as a cancerous tumor is from the body of a patient in a surgical operation. — Nur Muhammad Taraki

Size without shape is grotesque. — Vince Gironda

These were bad memories, but over the years I had brought them out and handled them so often there was hardly a sharp edge left to them. — Patrick Rothfuss

We don't have to have suffered brain damage to take advantage of the plastic nature of our brains. — Philippa Perry

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem. — Charles Baudelaire

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything. — Andy Dick

On his deathbed, Aldous Huxley reflected on his entire life's learning and then summed it up in seven simple words: Let us be kinder to one another. — Robin S. Sharma