Vcusd Quotes & Sayings

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise. — Wilkie Collins

Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake. — Haruki Murakami

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem. — Michio Kaku

I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes. — Laurell K. Hamilton

There has been a deepening recognition among elites in the West that as you begin to lose the power to control people by force, you have to start to control what they think. And in the United States, that recognition has reached its apogee. — Noam Chomsky

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith. — Reza Aslan

I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses. — Eleanor Mondale

The coming of the kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, 'Look, here it is,' or, 'There it is.' For behold, the kingdom of God is among you. — Luke The Evangelist

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. — John Stuart Mill

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people. — John F. Kennedy

These lands are not always calm. We may well have more adventures ahead of us. But we shall meet them with high hearts. — Poul Anderson

You must agree, for instance, that the Christian faith has only served the rich and noble, so as to keep the lower classes in slavery, isn't that so? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All that materializes dematerializes. — Anita Moorjani

Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal. — Gian-Carlo Rota

The emerging church movement has come to believe that the ultimate context of the spiritual aspirations of a follower of Jesus Christ is not Christianity but rather the kingdom of God ... to believe that God is limited to it would be an attempt to manage God. If one holds that Christ is confined to Christianity, one has chosen a god that is not sovereign. Soren Kierkegaard argued that the moment one decides to become a Christian, one is liable to idolatry. — Samir Selmanovic