Schrabbing Quotes & Sayings

First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible. — Robert Harris

Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism. — Maajid Nawaz

The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody. — Aristotle.

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. — Wallace Stevens

There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch. — William III Of England

Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender. — Dan Barker