Qalliance Quotes & Sayings

We start with the evidence, and then figure out what the best explanation of it all really is, regardless of where this quest for truth takes us. — Richard Carrier

You're powerful, Clara. Or you could be, if you would let go of your fear long enough to realize it. — Claire Legrand

(P)ersonality...is perhaps the very most important thing in the world. Yet we know only one or two things about it. We know that anybody's personality is made up of the sum total of all the actions and thoughts and desires of his life. And we know that though there aren't any words or any figures in any languages to set down that sum total accurately, still it is one of the first things that everybody knows about anybody else. And that really is all we know! — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

We do not build new Jewish communities in Samaria, Judea and Gaza. The United States has never accepted our building of communities or of the fence. Yet, I've managed to develop relations between Israel and the United States even though President Bush never supported settlements. — Ariel Sharon

Official opposition to overall economic planning and planning controls has been characterized in a recent editorial as "Papa knows best". But it is precisely because Papa does not know best that I believe that Government should not presume to tell any businessman or industrialist what he should or should not do, far less what he may or not do; and no matter how it may be dressed up that is what planning is. — John James Cowperthwaite

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity. — Henry Ward Beecher

Success has ruined many a man. — Benjamin Franklin

I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing. — Clint Eastwood

This living hand, now warm and capable
Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold
And in the icy silence of the tomb,
So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights
That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood,
So in my veins red life might stream again,
And thou be conscience-calm'd. See, here it is
I hold it towards you. — John Keats

My brain fizzles. The 'this is your brain on drugs' warning, should also issue a 'this is your brain when Jackson Reid looks at you like that,' warning. — Ashley Jade

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort. — M. Scott Peck

Greater is He that is in you than anything that surrounds you. — Christine Caine