Neslest Quotes & Sayings

GK Chesterton once said that to criticise religion because it leads people to kill each other is like criticising love because it has the same effect. All the best things we have, when abused, will cause bad things to happen. The need for sacrifice, to obey, to make a gift of your life is in all of us and it's a deep thing. In the Islamic world today, people are trying to rejoin themselves to an antiquated and ancient faith and the result is massive violence when they encounter people who have not done that. We'd say that sense of sacrifice is good but only if you're sacrificing your own life; once you sacrifice another's life you've overstepped the mark. — Roger Scruton

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up. — Glen Hansard

Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall. — Shaun David Hutchinson

The animals possess a soul and men must love and feel solidarity with our smaller brethren. All animals are fruit of the creative action of the Holy Spirit and merit respect and they are as near to God as men are. — Pope John Paul II

Forgiving once is human, forgiving twice is Godlyness, forgiving the third time is cowardice. — Ghulam Qadir Khan Daur

he hadn't killed or shagged even one single person in front of me - which I felt was a rather good indication of his superior character. — Hettie Ivers

God I bring each wounded child to Thee. — Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely. — Alan Lightman

I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population. — Alice Walker

But we are almost certainly going to miss our [global warming] deadline. We cannot get the 10 lost years back, and by the time a new global agreement to replace the Kyoto accord is negotiated and put into effect, there will probably not be enough time left to stop the warming short of the point where we must not go. — Gwynne Dyer

Dora was having trouble with her income tax, for she was entangled in that curious enigma which said the business was illegal and then taxed her for it. — John Steinbeck

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying ... — Percy Bysshe Shelley