Shkodran Jahiu Quotes & Sayings

The point we desperately need to grasp is that forgiveness is not the same thing as tolerance. We are told again and again today that we must be "inclusive"; that Jesus welcomed all kinds of people just as they were; that the church believes in forgiveness and therefore we should remarry divorcees without question, reinstate employees who were sacked for dishonesty, allow convicted pedophiles back into children's work-actually, we don't normally say the last of these, which shows that we have retained at least some vestiges of common sense. But forgiveness is not the same as tolerance. It is not the same as inclusivity. It is not the same as indifference, whether personal or moral. Forgiveness doesn't mean that we don't take evil seriously after all; it means that we do. — N. T. Wright

But to dream you first must know the sleep of men. You do not smell of sleep, you do not smell of dreams. You smell of an eternity born of unremembered beginning. — Jon Steele

If you could reason with religious people, there wouldn't be any religious people. — David Mitchell

As J. S. Mill wrote, No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like. — Bat For Lashes

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious. — Francesca Annis

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift. — Joel Osteen

Then the silence came back, that awful silence that seemed to just take over.
In that silence I kept hearing what I had said
heard it repeating itself over and over again like a stuck record. I wanted it to stop. I didn't want to say things like that anymore. I was sick of that kind of lying. I wished I could say something real.
But the silence was too big. — Avi

Try not to come back."
"Oh, I'll be back, but it'll be to ask you out."
"Give it up, jock. It's not going to happen."
"We'll see. — Jaci Burton

A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian ... — Friedrich Nietzsche