Pastan Choosna Quotes & Sayings

That religion is only a curb to keep in check the barbarous classes of the people — Leo Tolstoy

If two thousand five hundred languages are to be lost in the course of the twenty-first century, don't be in any doubt about what that means for us: in each of those two thousand five hundreds cases a culture will be lost. — Andrew Dalby

Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived. — Liane Moriarty

In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down to some one simple emotion or sensation of the body. — William James

How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all 'good things'! — Friedrich Nietzsche

The students always, always surprise me. — Dorianne Laux

Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience. — Leonardo Da Vinci

And who are you supposed to be? the King of snot-nosed delinquents? — Michael Buckley

The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power. — Samuel Chadwick