The Boat That Rocked Minister Dormandy Quotes & Sayings

The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing. — Pope Francis

Whenever he closed his eyes, he still saw her flying, fighting with ferocious genius. He still remembered that kiss. — S.J. Kincaid

Once an organization has a strong sense of mission, leaders can focus on trying new things. — Margaret Hamburg

If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others! — S.R. Ranganathan

there are worse things than death or murder." "Like what?" I asked. "Though it's hard to comprehend," he said, "the worst thing is to say to God that you don't need him. Why? Because a dead person can be restored to life by God; a bereaved person can find peace from God; a person who has been violated can find God's sustenance and strength and even see God conquer through the dark mystery of evil. In other words, there is recourse through these atrocities and tragedies. But to a person who says he or she doesn't need God, what is the recourse? There is none. — Lee Strobel

I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have. — Ingmar Bergman

The state - or, to make matters more concrete, the government - consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting 'A' to satisfy 'B'. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advanced auction on stolen goods. — H.L. Mencken

[Describing the soap in the gulag] It smelt as if some sacred physical law had been demeaned in its creation. — Martin Amis

Love is just chemistry. — Rachel Hunter

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary ... expectations always travel at higher speeds. — John Naisbitt

Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning. — Laura Mulvey

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere. — Mason Cooley

The painting is usually finished before you are. — Rex Brandt

Fourth-century church father Gregory of Nazianzus wrote, God became human and poor for our sake, to raise up our flesh, to recover our divine image, to recreate humanity. We no longer observe distinctions arriving from the flesh, but are to bear within ourselves only the seal of God, by whom and for whom we were created. We are to be so formed and molded by Jesus that we are recognized as belonging to his one family. If only we could be what we hope to be, by the great kindness of our generous God! — Shane Claiborne

The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis. — Neil Peart