Readsters Quotes & Sayings

Sandler's always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice. — Jimmy Fallon

The natural resources of the world do not belong to any person, organization, collective, or so-called nation. — Bryant McGill

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals. — David Mamet

Before you say one word to God, take a minute and imagine what it would be like to stand before His throne as you pray. — Francis Chan

I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content - a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father. I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals, feasts, shrines, pilgrimages, communal meals and illustrated manuscripts of the faiths. — Alain De Botton

But the knowing was visceral: if I became a mother, I'd lose myself. — Kate Bolick

Beware of long arguments and long beards. — George Santayana

The acronym COAL has been proposed for this attitude of compassionate curiosity: curiosity, openness, acceptance, and love: — Gabor Mate

My interest is a lonely one. I cannot trot it out at cocktail parties. I feel sometimes as if I have spent a large part of my life learning a dead language that no one I know can speak. — Anne Fadiman

I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made. — A.E. Housman

We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are. — Maimonides

And that's what makes this a great game, is the support and the commitment that the fans give the game. — Nolan Ryan

Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility. — Stewart Brand

A woman I knew just drowned herself
The well was deep and muddy
She was just shaking off futility
Or punishing somebody
My friends were calling up all day yesterday
All emotions and abstractions
It seems we all live so close to that line
and so far from satisfaction — Joni Mitchell

Every other civilized nation in the world has been compelled to care for its forests, and so must we if waste and destruction are not to go on to the bitter end, leaving America as barren as Palestine or Spain. — John Muir