Torsunov Quotes & Sayings

James says that you deceive yourself if you only hear the Word but do not do it. How many people live in this deception their whole life-hearing and hearing, but never even trying to do what they hear! — Johan Oscar Smith

Starlight
I will be chasing the starlight
Until the end of my life
I don't know if it's worth it anymore — Muse

There's major depression, and then there's clinical depression. Major depression is what makes you jump off a bridge. I have clinical depression. I jump out of first story windows. It's the psychological equivalent of lying on a bed of rubber nails. — Doug Westberg

The first is the Credo quia absurdum of the early Father. It would imply that religious doctrines are outside reason's jurisdiction; they stand above reason. Their truth must be inwardly felt: one does not need to comprehend them. — Sigmund Freud

Horses have never hurt anyone yet, except when they bet on them. — Stuart Cloete

Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century. — Alvin Plantinga

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12. — Charles Kuralt

It's a party house."
"I hope for your sake it's a very tame party." If he brought me to some sort of sex orgy, he would fly right through one of those pretty windows, headfirst. — Ilona Andrews

The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education. — Maria Montessori

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven. — Al Franken

The question that has perhaps divided students of vouchers more than any other is their likely effect on the social and economic class structure. Some have argued that the great value of the public school has been as a melting pot, in which rich and poor, native- and foreign-born, black and white have learned to live together. That image was and is largely true for small communities, but almost entirely false for large cities. There, the public school has fostered residential stratification, by tying the kind and cost of schooling to residential location. It is no accident that most of the country's outstanding public schools are in high-income enclaves. — Milton Friedman

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope. — Sue Miller

His father was a sergeant major, his mother was a Korean woman whose people had been mine slaves in Nippon, and Hiro didn't know whether he was black or Asian or just plain Army, whether he was rich or poor, educated or ignorant, talented or lucky. He didn't even have a part of the country to call home until he moved to California, which is about as specific as saying that you live in the Northern Hemisphere. In the end, it was probably his general disorientation that did them in. — Neal Stephenson

In Colombia maybe 95% of the population follow Formula One. It's crazy. — Juan Pablo Montoya