P190 Quotes & Sayings

Sin is an exacting despot who can be vanquished by no created power, but by the sovereign power of Jesus Christ alone. — Martin Luther

There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity. The latter, being the concern of the philosophers and the vita contemplativa, must remain outside our present considerations. But the former is testified to by the current classification of striving for immortality with the private vice of vanity. Under modern conditions, it is indeed so unlikely that anybody should earnestly aspire to an earthly immortality that we probably are justified in thinking it is nothing but vanity. — Hannah Arendt

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough. — Irwin Shaw

Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico. — Peter Straub

Our interaction as patients with the NHS should be on the basis that there's a presumption that all information is shared with us. — Andrew Lansley

I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said. — Jeff Garcia

The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ ... Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty. — Pope Leo I

I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure. — Felix Dennis

Hate destroys EVERYTHING except itself. Everything. Including you. — Tanya Masse

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Global warming, you don't win it. It's this weird steady-state issue that's going to be with us for a few thousand years. — Douglas Rushkoff

Work was never about wanting fame or money. I never thought about that. I loved getting the job, going to rehearsal, playing someone else, hanging around with a bunch of actors. I needed that, the way you need water. — Sarah Jessica Parker