Rhyner Documentary Quotes & Sayings

He tried to design his life in such a way that no woman could move in with a suitcase — Milan Kundera

Religious programming has the power to distort normal, natural and intensely pleasurable behavior into something inconceivably disgusting. — Darrel Ray

(T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut. — Thomas Mann

Hemingway Defense goes something like this: as a writer, I am a very sensitive fellow, but I am also a man, and real men don't give in to their sensitivities. — Stephen King

There is a role for carrots and sticks, but to rely on carrots and sticks alone is effective only when we employ donkeys and we are sure exactly what we want the donkeys to do. — John Kay

Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

We Muslims must get used to the fact that people will criticize our religion, just as we criticize everyone else's religion for not being "true." Some people will choose to leave the faith, and we Muslims will need to come to terms with this, and to understand how to treat ex-Muslims not just with civility but with the utmost respect. Critiquing Islam, critiquing any idea, is not bigotry. "Islamophobia" is a troubled and inherently unhelpful term. Yes, hatred of Muslims by neo-Nazi-style groups does exist, and it is a form of cultural intolerance, but that must never be conflated with the free-speech right to critique Islam. Islam is, after all, an idea; we cannot expect its merits or demerits to be accepted if we cannot openly debate it. So I'm not one to try to avoid these issues. We have to address them head-on. — Sam Harris

We're all the same in the dark. — J.J. Murray

I am just another dot in the world — Yayoi Kusama

I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making. — Ben Stein

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice. — John McCain

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you ... — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it. — Rene Descartes

Some romantic you are," Caine complained as he pushed the door open with his back."Whatever happened to women who liked to be swept off their feet?" "They got dropped," Diana said flatly. — Nora Roberts