Skollerninnilooks Quotes & Sayings

The point is not to read widely so that your voice will be sort of a mutt descended from them all. The point is to read widely enough to know what delights you, what you would like to imitate, and what you want to stay away from. — Douglas Wilson

It's reasonable to say that certain things we understand should perhaps have limits on how they're used and how certain technologies are deployed. That's very much what we should do as a society. — Rodney Brooks

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life. — Andrew Lang

My first pastoral letter's gonna be a condemnation of light beer and instant mashed potatoes
I hate those two things. — Timothy M. Dolan

Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey. — Jack Nicholson

The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of protection. When we lose to God we turn to what looks like the next most powerful thing, which is the state. How bad a choice that is, let Germany and Russia in recent years testify. — Sam Shoemaker

The hybrid engine costs a lot of money, and customers are hardly willing to spend so much more for a car. — Martin Winterkorn

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'. — Hugh Mackay

Knowledge is strength, wisdom is power, and love is freedom. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful. — Earl Tupper

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. — Malcolm Gladwell

To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion. — Richard Dawkins

And guys don't get attached, guys don't give themselves over completely, and guys lie. That's why they should be handled with great trepidation, not trusted, and held at arm's length whenever possible. — Sarah Dessen

Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies. — Rick Yancey