Septima Cruzada Quotes & Sayings

Whoring is like military service ... okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down. — Robert A. Heinlein

Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority. — Ali Babacan

In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream? — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

When you lose the shootout, you feel like you lost the hockey game, ... But we didn't lose the hockey game. We lost a point and they gained a point. That's the reality of it. — Randy Carlyle

There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry. — Michael Novak

He had gathered about him what was considered by many to be the intellectual and artistic elite ... actually, a group of bored men and libertines who were glib-tongued, talking much of art, literature, and music but without any deep-seated convictions upon any subject aside from their own prejudices. Mainly concerned with their own posturing, they were creatures of fad and whim, seizing upon this writer or that composer and exalting him to the skies until he bored them, then shifting to some other. Occasionally, the artist upon whom they lavished attention were of genuine ability, but more often they possessed some obscurity that gave the dilettantes an illusion of depth and quality. In the majority of cases what was fancied to be profound was simply bad writing, bad painting, or deliberately affected obscurity. — Louis L'Amour

Hubert Humphrey's wife is said to have advised him: Darling, for a speech to be immortal it need not be interminable. — Peggy Noonan

Evil has only the power we give it. — Ray Bradbury

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state. — David Cameron

A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance? — Michelle Paver

In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears. — Mason Cooley