Sciandra Staten Quotes & Sayings

In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept his mind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct. Because it has been his practice to listen to all that could be said against him; to profit by as much of it as was just, and expound to himself, and upon occasion to others, the fallacy of what was fallacious. Because he has felt, that the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. — John Stuart Mill

It is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking. — Andrzej Sapkowski

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. — Theodore Bikel

They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray. — Rachel Cohn

Angry, judgmental, and critical people don't make good evangelists. — John S. Leonard

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term. — Peter L. Berger

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains. — Marcel Proust

It is a mistake for anyone who is just in this stage to appear before a church as a teacher. He has outgrown the naivete with which in young people's work he might by all means have taken this part. He has not yet come to that maturity which would permit him to absorb into his own life and reproduce out of the freshness of his own personal faith the things which he imagines intellectually and which are accessible to him through reflection. We must have patience here and be able to wait. For the reasons I have mentioned I do not tolerate sermons by first-semester young theological students swaddled in their gowns. One ought to be able to keep still. During the period when the voice is changing we do not sing, and during this formative period in the life of the theological student he does not preach. — Helmut Thielicke

It's me. I'm the thing that needs to be fixed. I'm the thing that needs to be handled. I'm the scandal. And the best way to deal with a scandal is to shut it down. — Olivia

What she remembers now is not so much happiness as places where happiness occurred. Happiness was intangible, place made it visible. — Austin Wright

Factual reporting is all too often propaganda designed to provoke certain reactions from the masses. — James Morcan

San Francisco. The one team that everyone in LA hates. — Jeremy Sumpter