Rieding Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon never liked the word impossible; if he had liked it, he wouldn't be Napoleon! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them. — A. Scott Berg

The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend. — Mason Cooley

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism. — Rick Perlstein

John McCain famously has been incredibly loyal to Sarah Palin ever since he picked her as his running mate. — Rachel Maddow

Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you. — Tanith Lee

Some foolish men declare that a Creator made the world. The doctrine that the world was created is ill-advised, and should be rejected. If God created the world, where was He before creation? ... How could God have made the world without any raw material? If you say He made this first, and then the world, you are faced with an endless regression ... Know that the world is uncreated, as time itself is, without beginning and end. And it is based on the principles ... - The Mahapurana (The Great Legend), Jinasena (India, ninth century) — Carl Sagan