Vedral Quotes & Sayings

Righteousness exalts — Sunday Adelaja

You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament. — Steven Wright

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise. — Laozi

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead? — Megan Whalen Turner

We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake ... — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Which was increased by the two guardsmen, who took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but, just as he reached her, he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while a number of better dressed — Arthur Conan Doyle

Muhammad vs. Jesus "Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven." Jesus (Matthew 5:11) "And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter." Qur'an 2:191 — Robert Spencer

Often there are two different reasons given for this natural desire to simplify. First is that we as humans have a very limited imagination and whichever medium we use to understand the world - be it science, religion, philosophy, or art -we will end up exploting the same limited set of ideas available to us. — Vlatko Vedral

I know we were conjugating the verb love like two maniacs trying to fuck through an iron gate. — Henry Miller

There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth. — James Branch Cabell

Deep forests, dark caves, dim churches, half-lit libraries were all the same, they turned you down, they dampened your ardor, they brought you to murmurs and soft cries for fear of raising up phantom twins of your voice which might haunt corridors long after your passage. — Ray Bradbury