Saluda Quotes & Sayings

The supposed "secular" values atheists hold dear are in fact borrowed Christian values. Our society is respectful of any creed, or lack thereof, not because it embraces an illusory, non-existent secular morality, but because it is rooted in Christian faith. Christopher Dawson noted that "we cannot understand the inner form of a society unless we understand its religion." Because moral values are always a religious product, and Western moral values are a product of Christianity. Our values, what we believe has a value beyond and above our self-interest, are grounded in religious faith or are not grounded at all. — Giorgio Roversi

You'll notice something interesting about the way scientists think: they don't start with data. They start with a hypothesis. Then they go to the data. — John Braddock

Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing concentric circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird. — Tom Wolfe

The girl entered the room, not looking at Fire, glaring mutinously at the feather duster in her own hand. Still, at least she had come. Some of them scurried away, pretending not to hear. — Kristin Cashore

It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it, may forget their obligations to their constituents, and prove unfaithful to their important trust. — James Madison

pain reveals secretes. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree. — Joyce Kilmer

It was one of the few things he had to believe in, the possibility of beauty when faced with the reality of so much ugliness. — Cassandra Clare

If you have a movie that doesn't strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and it will be fine and funny. But if you have something pretty emotional at its core, you have to make it right. You don't want it overwrought or unearned. Everything has to be moving towards this one thing. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Heartache find you anytime it wishes. A particular century won't protect you from its touch. — Maeve Greyson

Crap. I was a lying chicken. — Lauren Myracle

Sometimes death is proof of life. Sometimes decay points out a certain verve. — Karen Thompson Walker

We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it? — Madonna

He has been outstanding. [Manuel] Neuer is an extraordinary goalkeeper, who would deserve to win it. — Johan Cruijff