Portail Parent Quotes & Sayings

In any case, the Christian world is not one, neither is the Islamic, nor does their combined authority speak to or for the entire world, but the world of the fanatic IS one and it cuts across all religions, ideologies and vocations. The tributaries that feed the cesspool of fanaticism may ooze from sources separated by history, clime and race, by injustices and numerous privations, but they arrive at the same destination - the zone of unquestioning certitude - sped by a common impetus that licences each to proclaim itself the pure and unsullied among the polluted. The zealot is one that creates a Supreme Being, or Supreme Purpose, in his or her own image, then carries out the orders of that solipsistic device that commands from within, in lofty alienation from, and utter contempt of, society and community. — Wole Soyinka

I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way is the only way. — Kristen Johnston

I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They're aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home. — Richard Briers

Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit. — Joseph Pilates

Our love is like the wind i don't hear it but i feel it. — Nicholas Sparks

The emptiness of your knowing everything about things you want to change, can't change anything. — Martin Edwards

He takes out his anger by having his carriage speed through the streets, scattering the commoners in the way. — Charles Dickens

Your culture is your brand. — Tony Hsieh

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories. — Taylor Swift

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite. — Miriam Makeba

First lesson when dealing with Karsa Orlong," she murmured. "Expect the unexpected. — Steven Erikson

So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires. — Seth Grahame-Smith

I don't trust her father than I can run full-steam in a corset. — Libba Bray

You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The GOP doesn't seem particularly afraid of being perceived as blocking reform, despite efforts by the Obama White House to establish that narrative. — Timothy Noah