Vanhynings Quotes & Sayings

Light a candle; share the beauty; share the light. Share the blessings and share the delight. — Debasish Mridha

A pastor friend of mine said, Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities. — Shane Claiborne

The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good. — Theodor Haecker

I believe we've ... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ever since the fall of Saddam's government. — John Abizaid

Humanity does not differ in any profound way; there are not essentially different species of human beings. If we could only put ourselves in the shoes of others to see how we would react, then we might become aware of the injustice of discrimination and the tragic inhumanity of every kind of prejudice. — John Howard Griffin

Atheists are often charged with blasphemy, but it is a crime they cannot commit ... When the Atheist examines, denounces, or satirises the gods, he is not dealing with persons but with ideas. He is incapable of insulting God, for he does not admit the existence of any such being ... We attack not a person but a belief, not a binge but an idea, not a fact but a fancy. — George William Foote

'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear. — Mark Z. Danielewski

My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right. — C.V. Wedgwood

I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred instances in which they hardly ever failed to lend faithful support to one another. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A second wave collapsed over my feet, lipped with white froth, and the chill gripped my ankles with a mortal ache. — Sylvia Plath

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time."
"I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia."
"But it keeps not ending."
"So far, so good. — Orson Scott Card