Skittermander Quotes & Sayings

The gospel is not something you can just tack on to another worldview. On the contrary, it makes you rethink everything from the ground up, from the center out. — Michael S. Horton

Half the world is redoing its kitchens, the other half is starving. — Don DeLillo

I have this complicated procedure I go through every morning, which is to look in the mirror and decide what I'm going to do. And I feel at that point, everybody's had their say. — Warren Buffett

I lie back. It seems as if the whole world were flowing and curving - on the earth the trees, in the sky the clouds. I look up, through the trees, into the sky. The clouds lose tufts of whiteness as the breeze dishevels them. If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever; if this moment could stay for ever. — Virginia Woolf

A high view of God's sovereignty fuels death-defying devotion to global missions. Maybe another way to put it, people, and more specifically pastors, who believe that God's sovereign over all things will lead Christians to die for the sake of all peoples. — David Platt

One day, my father said there was nothing outside infinity. He said the universe was like a cardboard box with God sitting outside surrounded by light, but I wanted to know if maybe God was sitting inside another cardboard box with the light on, and how could anyone be sure how many cardboard boxes there are. — Hugo Hamilton

The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis. — Timothy Noah

The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used. — Ronald Coase

There's no doubt in my mind that going vegetarian has made me feel better not only physically but also because I learned about the suffering of animals who are raised and killed for food. I feel good knowing I'm not contributing to that. — Sophie Monk

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art. — Devendra Banhart

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government. — Hill Harper

If you don't like smoking don't even bother getting sober, just stay drunk. — Augusten Burroughs

There, in a livid light, the demons tormented the souls of the damned. The souls preserved the appearance of the bodies which had held them, and even wore some rags of clothing. These souls seemed peaceful in the midst of their torments. — Anatole France