Transported By The Lion Quotes & Sayings

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred. — Frank Herbert

The Truth must be told at all costs, no matter how unpopular it may be. The authentic spiritual leader, having freed himself of his own false need to be popular, tells the Truth whether it falls on fertile or stony ground. Such a teacher is the salt of the earth, though few know it. If you think the world is delirious as is, you would find it intolerable without his healing influence. — Vernon Howard

It is this that ruins churches, that you do not seek to hear sermons that touch the heart, but sermons that will delight your ears with their intonation and the structure of their phrases, just as if you were listening to singers and lute-players. And we preachers humor your fancies, instead of trying to crush them. We act like a father who gives a sick child a cake or an ice, or something else that is merely nice to eat
just because he asks for it; and takes no pains to give him what is good for him; and then when the doctors blame him says, 'I could not bear to hear my child cry.' ... That is what we do when we elaborate beautiful sentences, fine combinations and harmonies, to please and not to profit, to be admired and not to instruct, to delight and not to touch you, to go away with your applause in our ears, and not to better your conduct. — John Chrysostom

The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America. — Ayn Rand

Fair weather friends are not worth much. — Aesop

And all next day and all the next it went on. It went on till one could hardly even remember a time before it had begun. And — C.S. Lewis

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half. — Jack Gould

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth. — Jean Houston

Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for. — Katey Sagal

I'm a sucker for a guy with scars, so for your protection, we should probably stick to the case."
"I'm not scared. — Lisa Kessler

Done is better than good. — Elizabeth Gilbert