Tractiune Quotes & Sayings

As American culture changes, the scandal of Christianity is increasingly right up front, exactly where it was in the first century. The shaking of American culture will get us back to the question Jesus asked his disciples at Caesarea Philippi: "Who do you say that I am?" As the Bible Belt recedes, those left standing up for Jesus will be those who, like Simon Peter of old, know how to answer that question. Once Christianity is no longer seen as part and parcel of patriotism, the church must offer more than "What would Jesus do?" moralism and the "I vote values" populism to which we've grown accustomed. Good. — Russell D. Moore

The beer was cheap, the fiddling sharp, and the dancing sweaty. — Caleb Crain

At the end of the day, I've played six years, haven't made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing. — Kevin Love

And even then it would be doubtful. — Howard Harrison

The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations. — Brian Greene

For devout unionists, the Constitution had been framed by the people rather than created as a compact among states. — Gary W. Gallagher

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question. — Charles Sanders Peirce

What! your wisdom thinks I must love the man I'm going to marry? The most unpleasant thing in the world. I should quarrel with him; I should be jealous of him; our menage would be conducted in a very ill-bred manner. A little quiet contempt contributes greatly to the elegance of life. ("The Lifted Veil") — George Eliot

There was something between me and the world right then. I saw it like a big sheet of glass, too thick to break through. I could make new friends, but they could never know me. — Ava Dellaira

The fall of humanity was the fall from the actual to the symbolic. Language abstracts us from the real world; keeping us from direct, intuitive perception. Words, like the ego, are merely guides. Don't mistake them for the real thing. Pull aside the filthy curtains of the social. Language makes an enigma of simple existence; it obscures the true nature of reality and of your self. — Tony Vigorito

A transaction between joy and task-fulfilment is much more productive than between money and work — Priyavrat Thareja

I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living. — Sara Sheridan

Football was not what I was put on this planet to do. — Sebastian Coe

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which if not a virtue, is the groundwork of a virtue. — Samuel Johnson

I can't wear thethe! I want my thtwipey oneth! — Diana Wynne Jones