Unintermittently Quotes & Sayings

The idea is that human culture as broadly defined
art, politics, technology, religion, and so on
evolves in much the way biological species evolve: new cultural traits arise and may flourish or perish, and as a result whole institutions can belief systems form and change. — Robert Wright

One should learn by considering one's own failures that are a part of life. — Eraldo Banovac

'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside. — Natalie MacMaster

You can educate people about politics, criminality, the law, but not about medicine? It's just silly ... I really don't want to hurt anybody, but to say the truth and to offer words that might be helpful in understanding what some of these conditions are. I can't see any reason not to do that. That's changing things for the better. — Drew Pinsky

this approach was permissive only in the sense that all feelings were permitted. For example, "I can see that you're having fun making designs in the butter with your fork." But that doesn't mean that you have to permit a child to behave in a way that's unacceptable to you. As you remove the butter, you can also let the young "artist" know that "Butter is not for playing with. If you want to make designs, you can use your clay. — Adele Faber

His cheeks were all pinked up. Travel agreed with him, and she might have known: people like Quinn, always running from themselves, loved the road. — Monica Wood

The sea will wash away our footprints but not the fact we made them. — Marty Rubin

Jesus thrown everything off balance. — Flannery O'Connor

We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them. — John Green

The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience. — John Piper

I don't need a paper certificate that makes it hard to leave; I need a love that makes it easy to stay. — Jewel E. Ann

We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect. — Christine Quinn

Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. It is ironic that the US should be fighting monstrously expensive wars, allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have been kept deliberately in the dark. — Paul Hellyer

We're too practical, I guess. You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books — Katarina Bivald