Patristics Scholar Quotes & Sayings

Claire is smarter than I am. I'm not saying that out of some half-baked feminist sentiment or in order to endear women to me. You'll never hear me claim that 'women in general' are smarter than men. Or more sensitive, more intuitive, or that they are more 'in touch with life', or any of the other horseshit that, when all is said and done, so-called 'sensitive' men try to peddle more often than women themselves. — Herman Koch

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature — George Harrison

Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul ... but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October. — Peggy Toney Horton

We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be done and must be done. Make sure we succeed, ... It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation. — Al Gore

When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered. — T. S. Eliot

Life goes on
It gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly
Every tear, a waterfall
In the night, the stormy night
She closed her eyes
In the night, the stormy night
Away she'd fly.
And dreamed of paradise. — Coldplay

The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you. — Jim Butcher

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice. — Bill Budge

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. — Tavis Smiley

Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the masters of it shall find more Encouragement. — Henry Purcell

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects. — Chris Hedges

so mom got the postcard today — Rebecca Stead