Samovar Silver Quotes & Sayings

Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power? — Christopher Hitchens

Christ, he was empty, just a shell of himself. He had nothing to give, not even his seed. — Charlotte Featherstone

Arnobius wrote in the fourth century: "Evil ought not be repaid with evil. . . . It is better to suffer wrong than inflict it. . . . We should rather shed our own blood than stain our hands and our conscience with the blood of another" (Sider, 101). In his writings on "public homicide," Lactantius raged against the ways we have glorified death - that we have a "thirst for blood" and "lose our humanity." Here are his powerful words insisting that it is wrong to kill, even legally: It makes no difference whether you put a person to death by word or rather by sword, since it is the act of putting to death itself which is prohibited. . . . There ought to be no exception at all but that it is always unlawful to put to death a person who God willed to be a sacred creature. (Sider, 110) He goes on to say that when we kill, even legally execute, "the bloodshed stains the conscience. — Shane Claiborne

This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a murder, an erasing, and it is not surprising that when people have felt themselves prey to it (conquest), among their first acts of liberation is to change their names ... — Jamaica Kincaid

Out. He watched her when they were at Kate's tennis — Barbara Delinsky

If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane? — Hermann Hesse

Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them. — C.S. Lewis

The pain from the abuse never went away, I just embraced it to become what I am today — Timothy Long

didn't hesitate. They rode down — Karen Kingsbury

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is. — John Ralston Saul

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward. — Seneca The Younger

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness as glad rags. — Ray Bradbury

There's such joy and fearless in that face, isn't there? It's like the look you see on a child's face before the age of reason sets in. — Alice Steinbach

Sometimes you have to lose everything to know what you had. — Jeaniene Frost