Thorsteinn Erlingsson Quotes & Sayings

Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance. — Leo Strauss

Because I long to feel nothing. I want to be frozen inside. I want the icy cold to blow directly on my heart. — Kathryn Stockett

Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important. — Simon Travaglia

I've always been afraid that if I played Sim City I'd just get virtual junk mail for occupant/resident since it is so much like real life!!! It would suck to be invisible in two worlds at once, as always that gives me an interesting story idea.
Have to run someone, no doubt a solicitor, is at my door ... — Neil Leckman

The writer doesn't write for the reader. He doesn't write for himself, either. He writes to serve ... something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness - those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings. — Joy Williams

I used to hope that if we had to give up our old life, we'd get a new one. — Jodi Picoult

I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science. — George Coyne

Pain is such a personal thing. I wear mine like a cloak of protection, keeping people at bay. Max just casually removes it from my shoulders and drops it to the ground. If that weren't intimidating enough, he lays it out like a picnic blanket, waiting for me to take a seat and join him. — Maggi Myers

Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it. — Bryan Caplan

Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine. — Harold Urey