Silnap Quotes & Sayings

Trends working at least marginally towards the implantation of a very narrow range of attitudes, memories and opinions include control of major television networks and newspapers by a small number of similarly motivated powerful corporations and individuals, the disappearance of competitive daily newspapers in many cities, the replacement of substantive debate by sleaze in political campaigns, and episodic erosion of the principle of the separation of powers. It is estimated (by the American media expert Ben Bagditrian) that fewer than two dozen corporations control more than half of the global business in daily newspapers, magazines, television, books and movies! — Carl Sagan

I'm a feminist. So if a woman and I are going for the last empty seat on the subway, I'm not holding back. — Brandon Stanton

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point. — Thomas McGuane

We are to show unsaved people the way out — Sunday Adelaja

I threw the notebook at his head; he didn't even have the courtesy of flinching at the tiny pissed-off human. — Ashlan Thomas

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer — Eric Metaxas

Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process. — Charles Shaar Murray

It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run but, it will never make you less afraid. — Harriet Lerner

Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment. — W. Somerset Maugham