Retical In A Scope Quotes & Sayings

When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality. — Sogyal Rinpoche

I made a list of inventions the world would be better off without and, one by one, I uninvented them all. — Neil Gaiman

A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed. — Rowan Atkinson

The one who listens attentively to the Word of God and truly prays, always asks the Lord: what is your will for me? — Pope Francis

Nothing- not a conversation, not a handshake or even a hug- establishes friendship so forcefully as eating together. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it. — Barney Frank

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal. — Henry Rollins

A knight," Allan muttered. "As if I would ever be a knight. I'm far too handsome to be a knight. — A.C. Gaughen

You lie upon my heart as on a nest,
Folded in peace, for you can never know
How crushed I am with having you at rest
Heavy upon my life. I love you so
You bind my freedom from its rightful quest.
In mercy lift your drooping wings and go. — Amy Lowell

Life moves in one direction only - and each day we are faced with an actual set of circumstances, not with what might have been, not with what we might have done, but with what is, and with where we are now- and from this point we must proceed; not from where we were, not from where we wish we were - but from where we are. — Richard L. Evans

All his life long he had been amazed at the way ideas have of agglomerating, divorced from feeling, like crystals in strange, meaningless formations; and of growing like tumors, devouring the flesh that conceives them; or of assuming certain human lineaments, but in monstrous wise, like those inert masses to which some women give birth, and which are, after all, only the incoherent dreams of matter. He found that a goodly number of the mind's productions are no more than such deformed mooncalves. Other conceptions, less impure and more precise, forged as if by a master workman, make for illusion when viewed from afar; though commanding our admiration for their parallels and their angles, like intricate iron grills, they are nevertheless only bars behind which the understanding imprisons itself, abstract fetters already eaten into by the rust of false premises. — Marguerite Yourcenar

I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them. — Joan Severance

The thing to hold onto, though, during the tough first year, is that you can make a real and genuine difference to your children's lives. And at some point in the future they may look back and remember you as someone who really mattered to them. What other career could offer such a wonderful reward? — Sue Cowley