Secaris Quotes & Sayings

Everyone's different inside their head. — Alice Oseman

Altho' I rarely waste time in reading on theological subjects, as mangled by our Pseudo-Christians, yet I can readily suppose Basanistos may be amusing. Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus. If it could be understood it would not answer their purpose. Their security is in their faculty of shedding darkness, like the scuttlefish, thro' the element in which they move, and making it impenetrable to the eye of a pursuing enemy, and there they will skulk.
[Letter to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp on 30 July 1810 denouncing the Christian doctrine of the Trinity] — Thomas Jefferson

Can you say the following? Jesus is my Prophet. I've taken His yoke of Truth upon me. Jesus is my Priest. I rely on His sacrifice for sin to give me forgiveness of sins... Jesus is my King. I trust Him to deliver me from evil I submit to His authority over me. — Kenneth Mick

Out of the blue Sylvia said, 'People are like boxes. You would like to open them up and see what's inside, but you can't.' Sylvia was interested in people and recognizing how individuals create their own kind of camouflage- the 'lids on the boxes', so to speak. — Elizabeth Winder

If you want to know how old a woman is ... ask her sister-in-law. — E.W. Howe

The demented strutting of a dumb bird in the moonlight. — Roberto Bolano

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach. — Carrie Fisher

On the other hand, I have no project. My project is to live until I die. — Esme Weijun Wang

Hope is a precious thing, isn't it," she says. "And yet, we don't really appreciate it until it's gone. — Amy Ewing

Fear and pain can only touch you if you let them. — Peter V. Brett

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,' — Barack Obama

This life, so thrift and vague, nothing, but toil and worries, dread, and casts our souls into eternal journey of no return — Michael Bassey Johnson