Schaliken Quotes & Sayings

A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him. — Martin Luther

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else. — Aristotle.

I learned to tell stories from my mom. "Your dad's not feeling well today," she'd say. I had an accident. She'd say, Remember what happened. You're a clumsy girl. You walk into a door. You tripped and stumbled down a staircase. My favorite story: He doesn't mean to.
She was so good at telling stories that I started to believe them after a while. Maybe I was clumsy. Maybe it was my fault for provoking him.
Maybe he didn't really mean to. — Lauren Oliver

as tools of persuasion. He would — James Neff

I was thinking about picking up kayaking, but I didn't want anyone to think I had herpes. — Ingrid Weir

I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the Buddha was trying to say. Rather than offering the balm of consolation, the Buddha encouraged us to peer deep and unflinchingly into the heart of the bewildering and painful experience that life can so often be. — Stephen Batchelor

Your truth should be so pure that if lifts a person's soul to the heights. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality. — Hans Blix

Taxation is not a technical matter. It is preeminently a political and philosophical issue, perhaps the most important of all political issues. — Thomas Piketty

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk. — Ben Harper

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time. — Karl Albrecht