Rarst Quotes & Sayings

The heart is forever making the head its fool. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home. — Oscar Isaac

The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.' — Thomas J. Sargent

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going. — Kathryn Bigelow

For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it
even of my own music
with the same nuances forever. — Aaron Copland

What seems wrong to you is right for him
What is poison to one is honey to someone else.
Purity and impurity, sloth and diligence in worship,
These mean nothing to Me.
I am apart from all that.
Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better
or worse than one another.
Hindus do Hindu things.
The Dravidian Muslims in India do what they do.
It's all praise, and it's all right.
It's not I that's glorified in acts of worship.
It's the worshippers! I don't hear
the words they say. I look inside at the humility.
That broken-open lowliness is the Reality,
not the language! Forget phraseology.
I want burning, burning.
Be Friends
with your burning. Burn up your thinking
and your forms of expression! — Karen Armstrong

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. — Ambrose Bierce

Gin! Gran said and the rest of the group moaned. I smiled. Things — Brenda Pandos

The desire of the people should be the major instrument used to draw them closer to God — Sunday Adelaja

I am tired, so very tired of thinking about Lacey Yeager, yet I worry that unless I write her story down, and see it bound and tidy on my bookshelf, I will be unable to ever write about anything else. — Steve Martin

Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn't a question of if; it's a question of when. — Ben Feldman

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion. — Oscar Wilde

Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They must constantly demonstrate to courts and legislatures alike the tragic results of legal nonintervention. They must highlight how legal doctrines no longer bear any relation to reality, whether in landlord and tenant law, holder in due course law, or any other law. In sum, lawyers must bring real morality into the legal consciousness — William J. Brennan