Redlefsens Quotes & Sayings

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours. — James Joyce

She thought human thoughts and stone thoughts. The latter were slow, patchily coloured, textured and extreme, both hot and cold. They did not translate into the English language, or into any other she knew: they were things that accumulated, solidly, knocked against each other, heaped and slipped. — A.S. Byatt

Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence. — Karl Deutsch

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags. — Walter Scott

Whether [new Protestant church movements] place their emphasis on new worship styles, expressions of the Holy Spirit's power, evangelism to seekers, or Bible teaching, these so-called new movements still operate out of the fallacious assumption that the church belongs firmly in the town square, that is, at the heart of Western culture. And if they begin with this mistaken belief about their position in Western society, all their church planting, all their reproduction will simply mirror this misapprehension. — Alan Hirsch

Behold
The approach of him whom none believes,
Whom all believe that all believe,
A pagan in a varnished car. — Wallace Stevens

I'm going to crash if you keep that up. You're sort of distracting.'
He laughed again at her matter-of-fact observation. 'I'm sort of distracting? I obviously need to try harder. — Christine Feehan

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests. — Matt Taibbi

As for the sphere of thought, it is horror. Yes, it is horror itself. — Georges Bataille

Do I think anything I ever do will be as big as Motley Crue? It's impossible. — Nikki Sixx

... It is not possible, says Weber, to confer the objective validity of facts on the basis of a value-judgement; and second, it is not possible to judge the value of values through the use of scientific reason. This leads him to maintain a distinction between science and ethics, the former dealing with questions of fact, the latter with questions of value. — Nicholas Gane