Schoemer Steven Quotes & Sayings

You don't see many people crying over the wrong they do to God every time His word is neglected or when one willfully sins. — Monica Johnson

But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable. — Michel Hazanavicius

We say that the most dangerous
criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared
to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men; my heart
goes out to them. They accept the essential ideal of man; they
merely seek it wrongly. Thieves respect property. They merely wish
the property to become their property that they may more perfectly
respect it. But philosophers dislike property as property; they
wish to destroy the very idea of personal possession. Bigamists
respect marriage, or they would not go through the highly
ceremonial and even ritualistic formality of bigamy. But
philosophers despise marriage as marriage. Murderers respect human
life; they merely wish to attain a greater fulness of human life in
themselves by the sacrifice of what seems to them to be lesser
lives. But philosophers hate life itself, their own as much as
other people's. — G.K. Chesterton

We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good. — Thomas Jefferson

The modern bridge between the mind and physical objects is rickety and can sustain little weight. Idealists attempted to cut this bridge by positing that the mind is fundamental, while the materialists sawed the ropes off from the other end, in the constant quest to reduce, eliminate, or ignore the mental. The hard problem of consciousness, of unifying mind and body, and of correlating our mental grasp of the world with extramental objects is all but intractable within the modern paradigm. — John C. Wright

Everyone does not know the secrets of Truth
The States of Truth are not evidential. — Idries Shah

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. — Tennessee Williams

My grandmother always came to my shows. She was always concerned about the way I dressed - even later on, when I was well known and I supported her. — Al Pacino

What the narrator comes to realize is that the past "cannot be described objectively" and that her present will always mediate her past. — Linda Hutcheon

You come up and read books?" asked Gregor. "Read them, eat them, whatever mood strikes me, — Suzanne Collins