Sifrayel Quotes & Sayings

He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think. — Victor Hugo

Send out anger and impatience, and that's what you'll get. Send out love, and you'll get back love. — Wayne Dyer

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning. — John Locke

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. — Woody Allen

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large. — William Booth

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave. — James Russell Lowell

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too. — Tom Waits

And I am happy when I sing. — William Wordsworth

Listen, Ryker. I'm giving you an easy out here. Take it," she snapped.
"I don't want out."
Her head jerked. "Casual sex doesn't work for me any longer."
"There ain't nothin' casual about our sex, and you know it. — Rebecca Zanetti

It would be impious, I suppose, to suggest that, in his final divine judgment of creatures, God will judge himself; but one must hold that by that judgment God truly will disclose himself (which, of course, is to say the same thing, in a more hushed and reverential voice).

Even Paul asks, in the tortured, conditional voice of Romans 9, whether there might be vessels of wrath stored up solely for destruction only because he trusts that there are not, that instead all are bound in disobedience only so that God might prove himself just by showing mercy on all.

The argumentum ad baculum is a terrifying specter, momentarily conjured up only so as to be immediately chased away by a decisive, radiant argumentum ad caritatem.

(from Radical Orthodoxy 3.1 (2015): 1-17) — David Bentley Hart

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign, — Alec Baldwin

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'. — Red Skelton

To hell with monsters and to hell with men. There is no difference to me. — Rick Yancey

So you see how much effort a man will make and trouble he will invent to guard and defend himself from the boredom of peace of mind. Or rather perhaps the pervert who deliberately infests himself with lice, not just for the simple pleasure of being rid of them again, since even in the folly of youth we know that nothing lasts; but because even in that folly we are afraid that maybe Nothing will last, that maybe Nothing will last forever, and anything is better than Nothing, even lice. — William Faulkner