Tlif Quotes & Sayings

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence. — Gamaliel

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life. — Thomas Aquinas

Realize I'm done, so I close my mouth and stand there waiting for the paramedics, or whoever comes with the straightjacket. — Jandy Nelson

In the original 'Star Wars' movie, there is a small toaster-sized and shaped robot on the Death Star that guides Stormtroopers to where they need to go. I always liked that robot because I could imagine how to build it - and it served a real purpose. — Colin Angle

Modern people always appeared to be rushing about doing things, having no time, it seemed, for looking at the sky, — Alexander McCall Smith

I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s. — Grace Cavalieri

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind. — Dyan Cannon

I do not admit that theological points are small points. Theology is only thought applied to religion; and those who prefer a thoughtless religion need not be so very disdainful of others with a more rationalistic taste. The old joke that the Greek sects only differed about a single letter is about the lamest and most illogical joke in the world. An atheist and a theist only differ by a single letter; yet theologians are so subtle as to distinguish definitely between the two. — G.K. Chesterton

I grew up with my mom always talking to everyone everywhere, whether it was professionally or in a coffee shop. And my dad was the same way. So I love being able to talk to people, hear their stories and be inspired. — Katherine Schwarzenegger

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest. — Ambrose Bierce