Stepaside Quotes & Sayings

You never knew which split second might be the zigzag bolt dividing all that went before from the everything that comes next. — Barbara Kingsolver

Memory is the basis of individual personality," Miguel de Unamuno writes, "just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of a people. We live in memory and by memory, and our spiritual life is at bottom simply the effort of our memory to persist, to transform itself into hope, the effort of our past to transform itself into our future. — Christian Wiman

doesn't matter if we don't mean to do the things we do. It doesn't matter if it was an accident or a mistake. It doesn't even matter if we think this is all up to fate. Because regardless of our destiny, we still have to answer for our actions. We make choices, big and small, every day of our lives, and those choices have consequences. We have to face those consequences head-on, for better or worse. We don't get to erase them just by saying we didn't mean to. Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices. I'm starting to think that when we don't own them, we don't own ourselves. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun. — Dale Murphy

None other than the Skeptic's Dictionary points out an obvious and troubling irony: "When spoken by schizophrenics, glossolalia is recognized as gibberish. In charismatic Christian communities glossolalia is sacred and referred to as 'speaking in tongues' or having 'the gift of tongues. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world — Roger Scruton

Knowledge is power, and in the wrong hands, power can be destructive. — Siobhan Davis

Names have been further distinguished into univocal and aequivocal: these, however, are not two kinds of names, but two different modes of employing names. — John Stuart Mill