Sosascentsco Quotes & Sayings

When people say to me, 'You hate America,' I don't hate America. I love America. I am just embarrassed that it has been taken over by people like evangelicals, by people who do not believe in science and rationality. It is the 21st century. And I will tell you, my friend. The future does not belong to the evangelicals. The future does not belong to religion. — Bill Maher

From him I have learned that prayer is not asking for what you think you want but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. To be more grateful, more able to see the good in what you have been given instead of always grieving for what might have been. — Kathleen Norris

There is no fun in getting into a debate or a contest of wills. If something important comes out of the conversation, okay. If not, that's okay, too. — Wayne Rogers

I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle. — Evgeny Morozov

I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to. — Thomas Merton

Everybody makes his own god(s). — Ludwig Feuerbach

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning. — Wilbur Ross

The need is what is necessary. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision. — Walter B. Pitkin

Everywhere I go, every smile I see, I know you are there smilin' back at me. Dancin' in moonlight, I know you are free 'cause I can see your star shinin' down on me. — Janet Jackson

Communism
the first expression of the social nature
is the first term of social development
the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term
the antithesis. When we have discovered the third term, the synthesis, we shall have the required solution. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

If I go up to Harlem or down to Sixth Street, and I'm not dressed up or I'm not wearing my jewelry, then the people feel I'm talking down to them. People expect to see Mrs. Astor, not some dowdy old lady, and I don't intend to disappoint. — Brooke Astor