Respectful Discourse Quotes & Sayings

Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,
and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,
may do so. It's their choice. But I meanwhile
with hungry eyes that can't be satisfied
shall take a look at the world in broad daylight. — Rabindranath Tagore

If your life works, and you work in it, then it's okay, whatever is happening is okay. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I don't know . . . there's just something about him. You radiate joy and sunshine, and he seems like more of a wet blanket who wants all the attention for himself. Everyone loves you here. I'm just looking out for you," she shares apologetically as she comfortingly cups Julie's hand. — Sheri Fink

We were the letters sent to the wrong address,
but opened anyway. — Andrea Gibson

But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me - I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough. — Dexter Palmer

Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification. — Karl Popper

Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are. — Kurt Vonnegut

To have nothing to do, to sit there waiting for little aches and pains, is fundamentally wrong. Life has to be lived. — Johannes Heesters

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable. — Teju Cole

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies. — Doug Liman

The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too. — Sarah Connor

Still - and for all Obama's heavy hinting to the contrary - Islam has no "human rights." The ideas of individual rights and the dignity of man are distinctly Western, an outgrowth of the Enlightenment. And while dialogue is dignified; dhimmitude is not, even if it achieves a desired, if temporary, effect. — Ilana Mercer

If I could do this book properly it would be one of the really fine books and a truly American book. But I am assailed with my own ignorance and inability. i'll just have to work from a background of these. Honesty. If I can keep an honesty it is all I can expect of my poor brain ... If I can do that it will be all my lack of genius can produce. For no else knows my lack of ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time. — John Steinbeck

The Godhead is, to speak concisely, undivided there is one mingling of Light, as it were of three suns joined to each other. — Gregory Of Nazianzus

The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs. — Sandra Bernhard