Savages The Ending Quotes & Sayings

If you accept a punitive notion of God, who punishes or even eternally tortures those who do not love him, then you have an absurd universe where most people on this earth end up being more loving than God! — Richard Rohr

I generally start each day with a cup of coffee or tea - sometimes two. This morning, it was coffee (two). Why not tea? I am in no position to know. I wanted coffee more than I wanted tea today, and I was free to have what I wanted. Did I consciously choose coffee over tea? No. The choice was made for me by events in my brain that I, as the conscious witness of my thoughts and actions, could not inspect or influence. Could I have "changed my mind" and switched to tea before the coffee drinker in me could get his bearings? Yes, but this impulse would also have been the product of unconscious causes. Why didn't it arise this morning? Why might it arise in the future? I cannot know. The intention to do one thing and not another does not originate in consciousness - rather, it appears in consciousness, as does any thought or impulse that might oppose it. — Sam Harris

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. — Victor Hugo

We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again. — Al Murray

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own. — Madeleine L'Engle

An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower. — William Kristol

We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns. — Bertrand De Jouvenel

No, I am not a lady,' she said sadly. 'I never shall be. But he's a gentleman, and that - makes it - O how difficult for me! — Thomas Hardy

I don't believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It's the most senseless use of time. — Dietrich Mateschitz

How many people are not as good as they could be at their job because they don't love it? They're not passionate about it. If you don't like something, why are you doing it? — Tim Tebow

Don't follow me! I mean it, Seth. I don't care if you can throw me through the air. If you follow me, I'l jump off a freaking bridge and take you with me! — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Crowns and thrones are all bodies which rise and perish and leave the world as it is. — Auliq Ice

I have never opened with the QP - on principle. — Bobby Fischer

Lin Yutang also believed that reading is an art. One chapter of the Importance of Living is devoted to "the Art of Reading." Lin writes that, "the man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world, in respect to time and space. His life falls into a set routine; he is limited to contact and conversation with a few friends and acquaintances, and he sees only what happens in his immediate neighborhood. — Will Schwalbe

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. — Arthur Miller