Oksfordo Universitetas Quotes & Sayings

There can be no faith without risk. — Soren Kierkegaard

Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christ's blood, Christ's gospel, Christ's church, and Christ's expanding kingdom. Grape juice stays 'bottled up', confined to the historical skins of Palestine. — Gary North

We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible. — Emma Curtis Hopkins

Technology always has unforeseen consequences, and it is not always clear, at the beginning, who or what will win, and who or what will lose ... — Neil Postman

We weren't there to kill religious people. We were there to kill people who use religion to kill people. — James Landis

I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, trying to talk to people who didn't agree with me, trying to get them to see the war was wrong. And by 1968 a majority of Americans did oppose the war. — Bill Ayers

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers. — Richard Powers

There are many traditionally published authors who have hated the cover their publisher's decided on. Or the title or the marketing or the advertising. But there was nothing they could do about it. — M.J. Rose

I don't make any money. — Bill Wyman

People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation. — Henry Rollins

The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?' — Michael Franti

Stop trying to act like nothing happened. Because something did, and you can't make it go back to being the same — Jodi Picoult

That's all we had when I was a kid: Robitussin. No matter what you got, Robitussin better handle it. "Daddy, I got asthma." "Robitussin." "I got cancer." "Robitussin." "I broke my leg." Daddy poured Robitussin on it. "Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get in there. Yeah, boy, let that 'tussin get on down to the bone. The 'tussin ought to straighten out the bone." — Chris Rock