Venait De Finir Quotes & Sayings

Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether. — J.M. Coetzee

Eugenia's story can be a valuable lesson for us today: as an account of how the law can be misguided and unsympathetic; as an illustration of the dangerous agitation that can be whipped up in the public by the media with a salacious story to sell; and as a lesson in the persuasive power of fallacious science. — Mark Tedeschi

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade. — Michael Nutter

Our countenance, expressions, and communication style should be filled with Jesus. When people hear us, they should hear Jesus. — Mark T. Barclay

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard. — Rob Gronkowski

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics. — Virginia Woolf

[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing. — Leonora Carrington

Anything can happen and it probably will. — Brian Houston

My sister was the one who told me where babies come from. My sister was also the one who laughed when I immediately asked her where babies go to. — Stephen Chbosky

As soon as you express the gospel, you are unavoidably doing it in a way that is more understandable and accessible for people in some cultures and less so for others. — Timothy J. Keller