October Manifesto 1905 Quotes & Sayings

My commentary's hilarious, not witty. — Richelle Mead

If I told you that God speaks to us through our urges so long as these are safe and proper and totally civilized and don't hurt anyone, what would I be saying? If I told you longing is okay as long as it is within the bounds of what our world considers normal, I would be going counter to my whole tradition. My people discovered divine urges, for goodness' sake. Not namby-pamby urges either. It was loincloth-tearing, harlot-marrying, sacrificing, succumbing, and surrendering kinds of urges. Not without bickering and haggling, I'll grant you, but ultimately urges of the worst kind, the kind that demanded everything. — Francisco X Stork

I am not drunk, and I am not sentimental, and I tell you you are the most wonderful woman in the world. — Henry Miller

Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other creature has ever managed this and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy. — Elizabeth Kolbert

There are ten thousand planes of awareness within the infinite mind of the diamond mind, your deeper mind. — Frederick Lenz

There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born ...
Thus, to know humanity,
understand earth.
To know earth,
understand heaven.
To know heaven,
understand the Way.
To know the Way,
understand the great within yourself. — Wayne W. Dyer

You could say to me, "But the Church is made up of sinners; we see them every day." And this is true: we are a Church of sinners. And we sinners are called to let ourselves be transformed, renewed, sanctified by God. — Pope Francis

Religion is all bunk. — Thomas A. Edison

... but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin. — Gregory Maguire

I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all? — Kourtney Kardashian

A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance. — Henri Poincare

It never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms - me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile - and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving. And that I don't believe in God, but if I did, if I did, it would be the God of Moses, angry and demanding and OUT FOR REVENGE ... — Elizabeth Wein