Rev Maclean Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible. — Oscar Wilde

This' is not called a religion, 'This' is called a science (vignan). Religion keeps changing, science does not change. — Dada Bhagwan

They're perfect," she was frequently heard to say. "Any man will be happy with them because they've been raised to suffer. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end. — Henry A. Wallace

We might believe that our world embraced everything, we might do our thing down here on the beach, drive around in our cars, phone each other and chat, visit one another, eat and drive and sit indoors imbibing the faces and opinions and fates of those appearing on the TV screen in this strange, semi-artificial symbiosis we inhabited and lull ourselves for longer and longer, year upon year, into thinking that it was all there was, but if on the odd occasion we were to raise our gaze to this, the only possible thought was one of incomprehension and impotence, for in fact how small and trivial was the world we allowed ourselves to be lured by? Yes, of course, the dramas we saw were magnificent, the images we internalized sublime and sometimes also apocalyptic, but be honest, slaves, what part did we play in them? None. — Knausgaard, Karl Ove

If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits. — James Joyce

I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad — Mike Tyson

The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own. — Sigmund Freud

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. — Pat Barker

Be calm. Keep reading. — Tom Cardamone

Nothing I have will tempt you?" King Herla murmured.
Lin could only shake her head.
"Then perhaps I should offer myself," Herla said as he sank to his knees before her. "Wonderful girl, will you have me as your husband?"
"Oh, yes," Lin said. — Elizabeth Hoyt

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future. — Ahmed Zewail

Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home. — Heather Brewer

This is pluralism: not a synonym of relativism, but rather an antonym. Pluralism accepts the moral reality of different kinds of truth, but rejects the idea that they can all be placed on a single scale, measured by a single value. — Timothy Snyder