Spiritual Discord Series Quotes & Sayings

The significant owl hoots in the night. — Terry Pratchett

When you ban substances that people enjoy using so much that they'll break the law to do it, you create a black market with huge profits. And since purveyors of illicit drugs have no legal way to secure their investment, the trade will be run by increasingly violent criminals. — Anonymous

When an answer finally comes to me, I know I've completely lost all my wits - or as my mama used to tell my father, I have a few screws loose. — Brandy Nacole

Barack Obama's busy moving into the White House. Earlier today, John McCain was blowing on his soup. — David Letterman

We all hit bumps. But we're not defined by the bumps, we're defined by how we respond to those bumps. — Vince Poscente

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey. — Patrick Carney

In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary" things. In screenwriting, I don't have that guilt because story is the only thing. Character, dialogue, everything else - they feed into and drive story. — Nick Antosca

Artificial over-stimulation seemed like the perfect way to stifle a generation of young people who wanted more and more from a world where less and less was available. Whether the victims were men or women, arousal addiction seemed to have become the new normal. — Chuck Palahniuk

There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too. — Galen Rowell

If one were to entrust the organisation of public life to the devil, he could not invent a more clever device. — Simone Weil

The right wing has a large proportion of authoritarian personalities. They tend to believe man is, by nature, basically evil. Surrounded as all of us are by the bigness of impersonal forces which seem beyond our power to control, they look for the 'enemy', so that they can hate him. At different times in history 'the enemy' has been the witch, the demon, the Communist (remember Joe McCarthy?), and now sex education, sensitivity training, 'non-religious humanism', and other current demons.
- attributed to James E. Harmon — Carl R. Rogers

Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourself; modern society acknowledges no neighbor. — Benjamin Disraeli

Of all the world's civilizations, America was the one that most needed losers. — Stephane Audeguy

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. — Carol Channing

Stern and white as a tomb, older than the memory of the dead, and built by men or devils beyond the recording of myth, is the mansion in which we dwell. — Clark Ashton Smith