Shelf Engine Quotes & Sayings

Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more? — David Platt

Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state. — Joseph Sobran

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination ... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation. — Michel De Montaigne

You lose a certain kind of innocence when you experience this type of kindness. You lose your right to be a jaded cynic. You can no longer go back through the looking glass and pretend not to know what you know about kindness. It's a defeat, in a way. — Rob Sheffield

History is no more than memories refreshed. — Peter Charles Newman

The patient in the bed next to me told me that the newspapers were reporting on the test, and it was on television all day long. — Patrik Sinkewitz