Swick Nelson Quotes & Sayings

We cannot always cry at the right time
and who is to say which time is right? — Madeleine L'Engle

New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of. — Moby

The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to a higher state of rationality. It is obvious that this kind of courage to be must become conformist the moment its revolutionary attack on that which contradicts reason has ceased, namely in the victorious bourgeoisie. — Paul Tillich

Crazy like a fox. — Kresley Cole

Some paths, some doorways, some people were not to be yours, though the slightest difference in the rippling of time might have made it so. — Guy Gavriel Kay

The key to success is to be true to who you really are. — Dan Miller

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor. — Ed Koch

The hijab or a variation of the word shows up eight times in the Quran. And it never means headscarf. And so what's happened is that the identity of a Muslim woman especially is being equated to this piece of cloth on her head. And in that ideology there's a very fundamental assumption that people need to think very deeply about, which is do you believe that a woman is too sexy for her hair? — Asra Nomani

but not subjecting him to the tiresome demands of polite social interaction. — Neal Stephenson

I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad. — Sonia Gandhi

God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things. — Adam Hamilton

How different our life could have been and how different we could have been as a person if one little decision was altered. — M.B. Julien

All arguments between the traditional scientific view of man as organism, a locus of needs and drives, and a Christian view of man as a spiritual being not only unresolvable at the present level of discourse but are also profoundly boring ... From the scientific view at least, a new model of man is needed, something other than man conceived as a locus of bio-psycho-sociological needs and drives.
Such an anthropological model might be provided by semiotics, that is, the study of man as the sign-using creature and, specifically, the study of the self and consciousness as derivatives of the sign-function. — Walker Percy