Van Hulzen Craig Van Quotes & Sayings

You're what," I asked, "Catholic? Fascist? Both?" It just popped out. I was out of practice with intellectuals of the right - I couldn't remember how to behave. All at once, in the distance, we heard a kind of sustained crackling. "What was that, do you think?" asked Alice. "It sounded like shooting," she added, hesitantly. We fell silent, — Michel Houellebecq

HERE IS THE MOST CHILLING WAY I can find of stating the matter. Until recently, "waterboarding" was something that Americans did to other Americans. It was inflicted, and endured, by those members of the Special Forces who underwent the advanced form of training known as SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape). In these harsh exercises, brave men and women were introduced to the sorts of barbarism that they might expect to meet at the hands of a lawless foe who disregarded the Geneva Conventions. But it was something that Americans were being trained to resist, not to inflict. — Christopher Hitchens

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all. — Cleveland Amory

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed. — Edward Abbey

did manage to read some pages from a book that's also about how people can find strength they didn't know they had." "What book was that?" "The Book of Common Prayer," Mom answered. "Didion?" "No, Will." Mom's voice was somewhere between amused and exasperated. "The other one." And then she added, smiling: "Besides, I think the Didion is A Book of Common Prayer, not 'The Book.' — Will Schwalbe

Another ethical ideal, the utilitarian principle, maintains that the ultimate criterion of an ethical decision is the balance of positive consequences over negative consequences produced by an action. — Philip A. Becnel IV

Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture. — Lawrence Young

Love, life, meaning...over. — Stephenie Meyer

But you need someone who can grow old with you. — Hanya Yanagihara

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life. — Elizabeth Gilbert

What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head. — Karl Malone

Just because you read it in a magazine or see it on a TV screen doesn't make it factual. To buy it is to feed it. — Michael Jackson

I was born for a very specific purpose. I wasn't the result of of a cheap bottle of wine or a full moon or the heat of the moonent, I was born because a scientist managed to hook my mother's eggs and my fathers sperm to create a specific combination of precious genetic material — Jodi Picoult

It mattered to us both to have some point of reference in that strange place, some means of attesting to the effect it had on us. [p. 87] — Shirley Hazzard

As moonlight gently fills your room, your dreams begin to sprout, then bloom. — Wendy Tugwood