Oliver Platt Lake Placid Quotes & Sayings

Just be warned", you said. "Some day you will ask me to give up something I really love, and then it's going to get ugly. — David Levithan

Nowhere, not even in the sciences, does there exist a "purely natural" realm of knowledge. To encounter the world is to encounter its being, which is gratuitously imparted to it from beyond the sphere of natural causes, known within the medium of an intentional consciousness, irreducible to immanent processes, that grasps finite reality only by being oriented toward a horizon of transcendental ends (or, better, "divine names"). — David Bentley Hart

People develop a conscience with or without religion. Our culture teaches murder and cheating are wrong; we don't need religion to know this.
Guilt comes from a different place in our mental experience, a place that is independent of general cultural training and directly related to religious indoctrination. That is why two people may feel guilt about different things while being equally convinced that cheating and murder are wrong. — Darrel Ray

Her throat ached: adoration, heartbreak, in equal measure. "Kiss me," she said. "Please. — Cassandra Clare

Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence. — George W. Bush