Scorches Crossword Quotes & Sayings

The smallest act of compassion can save a soul, perhaps your own. — John Kramer

When I think of the word "organic," I think of natural, wholesome, and fundamental.
That's exactly what I want my children's education to be like. — Tamara L. Chilver

The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength. — Michael Scott

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. — Susan Sontag

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil. — Peter Kreeft

When you stop hoping you start settling. — Valorie Burton

People think I'm a freak or something, but I'm actually a really normal guy. — Rivers Cuomo

I claim that the fact that we are strongly encouraged to identify with characters for whom death is not a significant creative possibly has real costs. We the audience, and individual you over there and me right here, lose any sense of eschatology, thus of teleology, and live in a moment that is, paradoxically, both emptied of intrinsic meaning or end and quite literally ETERNAL. If we're the only animals who know in advance we're going to die, we're also probably the only animals who would submit so cheerfully to the sustained denial of this undeniable and very important truth. The danger is that, as entertainment's denials of the truth get even more effective and pervasive and seductive, we will eventually forget what they're denials OF. This is scary. Because it seems transparent to me that, if we forget how to die, we're going to forget how to live. — David Foster Wallace

The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk about a transcendent power to which both we and the world are subject is hampered and obscured by the objectifying character of its assertions. — Rudolf Bultmann