Unrequired Quotes & Sayings

Some never escape from the imprisoning conviction that a cold or unattainable lover can be persuaded to become warm or attainable if they only discover the key. — Jeanne Safer

At the "World Without Zionism" conference held in Tehran in October 2005, the assembled delegates chanted "death to Israel, death to America, death to England," while the host, Ahmadinejad, predicted to the cheers of the assembled that, "with the help of the Almighty, we shall soon experience a world without America and Zionism, notwithstanding those who doubt. — Robert Spencer

Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it's not bad, but afterwards it leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth. — Ivan Turgenev

Whether through an outwardly prideful life of breaking the rules or an inwardly prideful life of keeping the rules, we are people who have sought to avoid Jesus and run our own lives. — Justin Buzzard

The problem with composers is that they are the most unrequired job in America. — Gail Zappa

Crazier than a bag full of crazy? — Lisa Mantchev

Because I am in love with you. Because I cannot be around you for fear you will finally see what is written across my heart. Because the pain of you is one I cannot bear — Kiersten White

That her own self-deception and self-absorption, her own slavery to the society and family in which she had been brought up, had reduced this blameless man to a weeping wreck struck her as horrific. She saw more clearly than she had ever seen before that she must change, or keep hurting the people who truly loved her. — Shamim Sarif

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off. — Mark Mothersbaugh

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right. — Tom Clancy

Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever been suggested. Intelligent design suffers from exactly the same objection as chance. It is simply not a plausible solution to the riddle of statistical improbability. And the higher the improbability, the more implausible intelligent design becomes. Seen clearly, intelligent design will turn out to be a redoubling of the problem. Once again, this is because the designer himself (/herself/itself) immediately raises the bigger problem of his own origin. Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as a Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance. — Richard Dawkins

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television. — John McGahern

Obedience is not creation, and thus can never produce salvation. Obedience is a response, while creation is pure choice, undictated, unrequired. Pure choice produces salvation through the pure creation of highest idea in this moment now. — Neale Donald Walsch