Strvetv Quotes & Sayings

The Bill of Rights was written before data-mining," he said. He was awesomely serene, convinced of his rightness. "The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists? — Cory Doctorow

There's no question that homophobia is rampant among the world's 1.5 billion Muslims - but that doesn't negate the fact that there are huge groups of Muslims who have easily reconciled their faith and sexual orientation, like LGBT people in other faith communities. — Reza Aslan

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness. — Steve Scott

The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity. — Yukihiro Matsumoto

Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos. — John Frusciante

When you're doing a show on stage, and they show you a red light, that means you have 5 minutes left. At some clubs, they hold a candle up in the back. That's the worst method. You're up here, and then you see a floating candle. "Oh, no! This place is haunted!" I can't be funny when I'm frightened. — Mitch Hedberg

I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors. — Joseph Monninger

The foremost in religion is the acknowledgement of Him, the perfection of acknowledging Him is to testify Him, the perfection of testifying Him is to believe in His Oneness, the perfection of believing in His Oneness is to regard Him Pure, and the perfection of His purity is to deny Him attributes, because every attribute is a proof that it is different from that to which it is attributed and everything to which something is attributed is different from the attribute. Thus whoever attaches attributes to Allah recognises His like, and who recognises His like regards Him two; and who regards Him two recognises parts for Him; and who recognises parts for Him mistook Him; and who mistook Him pointed at Him; and who pointed at Him admitted limitations for Him; and who admitted limitations for Him numbered Him. — Anonymous

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum. — Joe E. Lewis

If you want God to bless you and use you greatly, you must be willing to walk with a limp the rest of your life, because God uses weak people. — Rick Warren

It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character. — Eric Holder

About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting. — Frits Zernike

Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
he courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference. — Reinhold Niebuhr

Whether we admit it or not, as people of faith, we sift our theology through Scripture, Church history and tradition, our reason, and our own experience. Most Christians, even the most committed of the sola scriptura crowd, use these four pillars
at varying degrees of importance and strength
to figure out the ways of God in our world and what it means here and now for our walking-around lives. And taking this a bit further into postmodern territory, we can also admit that we are relying on our own imperfect and subjective interpretations of those pillars, too. — Sarah Bessey