Vargskelethor Quotes & Sayings

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. — Anatole France

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. — Karl Kraus

Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior who dies in battle. This is the kind of language a soldier understands. When he believes that he will be welcomed in this manner in the afterlife, he will be willing to give his life, he will be enthusiastic about going to battle and not fear death. You may call this primitive and you may laugh about it, but it is based on deeper wisdom. A religion must speak a man's language. — Heinrich Himmler

Back in 1996, 65 percent of subprime loans had been fixed-rate, meaning that typical subprime borrowers might be getting screwed, but at least they knew for sure how much they owed each month until they paid off the loan. By 2005, 75 percent of subprime loans were some form of floating-rate, usually fixed for the first two years. — Michael Lewis

I'm a day-to-day-type person. — Clint Eastwood

There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction. — Biz Stone

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers. — Sam Donaldson

I recall the passage in the letter to the Hebrews in which we are reminded that Christ has already done everything for us. It speaks of the Christ who "offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins" (Hebrews 10:12). And yet the church teaches, and our experience of faith confirms, that Christ continues to be with us and to pray for us. The paradox may be unraveled, I think, if we remember that when human beings try to "do everything at once and for all and be through with it," we court acedia, self-destruction and death. Such power is reserved for God, who alone can turn what is "already done" into something that is ongoing and ever present. It is a quotidian mystery. — Kathleen Norris

With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together. — Stephen Leacock

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda ... and woke up with me. — Rita Hayworth

We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it. — Richard Rohr

My life is different since I moved back to L.A. from New York, mostly because I have a family and I don't go out. — Bill Hader

The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive. — Jan Tschichold

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries. — Mikheil Saakashvili

LIKE A GREAT WATERWHEEL, THE LITURGICAL YEAR goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil of our lives until the seed of the Word of God itself begins to grow in us, comes to fruit in us, ripens in us the spiritual journey of a lifetime. — Joan D. Chittister