Paul Radin Quotes & Sayings

A man stays alive as long as he is remembered.
He is killed only by forgetfulness. — Richard Basehart

To us, the argument for material well-being might seem uncontroversial. But in the eighteenth century, material prosperity was frequently condemned as "luxury" by religious and civic moralists. It was not a morally neutral word but a pejorative one, connoting not comfort but excess, the possession of nonnecessities. The notion of luxury was intricately connected with the existence of a recognized social hierarchy: what was necessary for those of high status was regarded as excessive for those of low status. Luxury meant the enjoyment of material goods not appropriate to one's station in life. Critics of luxury saw it as confounding social ranks. P. 40 — Jerry Z. Muller

Preach the gospel wherever you can; when all else fails use words. — Francis Of Assisi

If the Chandos portrait is not genuine, then we are left with two other possible likenesses to help us decide what William Shakespeare looked like. The first is the copperplate engraving that appeared as the frontispiece of the collected works of Shakespeare in 1623 - the famous First Folio. — Bill Bryson

This is how people behave when their dailiness is destroyed, when for a few moments they see, plain and unadorned, one of the great shaping forces of life. Calamity fixes them with her mesmeric eye, and they begin to scoop and paw at the rubble of their days, trying to pluck the memory of the quotidian - a toy, a book, a garment, even a photograph - from the garbage heaps of the irretrievable, of their overwhelming loss. — Salman Rushdie

No one person can be above the ANC. He can't be. — Jacob Zuma

She was becoming the person she'd be for her whole life. Each thing she chose contributed to that person. She didn't want to be like this. — Ann Brashares

I don't bring God into my life to - to, you know, kind of be a political person. — George W. Bush

Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.) — Joseph Heller

Everyone went crazy over Wayne Rooney, but I get more excited by Cristiano Ronaldo. — George Best

This is heaven. You can stop praying now. — Jhonen Vasquez

Scripture warns us against pursuing sexual practice inconsistent with being in Christ. When we tolerate the doctrine which affirms homosexual behavior, we are tolerating a doctrine which leads people further from God. — Kevin DeYoung