Serfaty Jessica Quotes & Sayings

That civilised life cannot be lived without taboos - that some of them may indeed be justified, and that therefore taboo is not in itself an evil to be vanquished - is a thought too subtle for the aesthetes of nihilism. — Theodore Dalrymple

I'd rather be this walking metamorphosis than having that old formed opinion about everything. — Raul Seixas

The guy that made me wanna make movies ... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director. — George A. Romero

I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall. — Augusten Burroughs

It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music. — Cheryl Lynn

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin? — Jack Lemmon

I don't think Trout has ever been out of the country," Rosewater went on. "My God - he writes about Earthlings all the time, and they're all Americans. Practically nobody on Earth is an American. — Kurt Vonnegut

Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery."2 — Ravi Zacharias

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them. — Tom Brown Jr.

It's a great kindness to trust people with a secret. They feel so important while telling it. — Robert Quillen

No, of course not. I just feel content," she said carefully.
"That's an old person's word," said Ethan. — Meg Wolitzer

Are we really ready to hear views without forming opinions about people? I write to reach a wide spectrum of people. Will my political views alienate many who are here or bring more here? Can my friends here see my views either for or against the government or opposition as views of an independent-minded person? — Nana Awere Damoah

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression ... it is a ... sacred obligation to their posterity to abolish such government, and create another in its stead. — Sam Houston

Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist, rejected emphatically Spinoza's pantheism. — Shelby D. Hunt

the Isle of Wight, with occasional visits to — Mary S. Lovell