Veridian Online Quotes & Sayings

Even the most extreme Islamophile responses to Islam can still provoke accusations of Islamophobia. But when it comes to Christianity, it appears that you cannot uphold its doctrines without immediately being accused of obscurantism or bigotry. This results from a profound disdain in intellectual circles towards the religion underpinning the West, and a corresponding exaggerated respect for what are presumed to be the cultures of the underdeveloped world. The result positively encourages a critical approach to Christianity while refusing to permit anyone to say/write anything critical of Islam. The result is an approach to Islam which is not just uncritical but slavish. — Douglas Murray

Going to give you some words of wisdom," he said, "that were passed down to me when I became a surgeon. Consider them a surgeon's survival guide." I closed my eyes briefly, indicating I was ready to absorb. "When you can eat, eat. When you can sleep, sleep. When you can fuck, fuck. But do not fuck with the pancreas. — Matt McCarthy

I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it. — Wole Soyinka

When one loves another without considering marriage as the goal, it's sexual harassment. — Chairman Mao

When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not exist at all, through the power of declamation and suggestion. So in Bach. There is but one voice
and many voices have to be suggested. — Pablo Casals

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue. — Ambrose Bierce

Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove me nuts. But now I'm much more sympathetic to a director's struggle. — Robert Redford

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government. — Robert A. Agresta

He who falls, falls by his own will; and he who stands, stands by God's will. — Augustine Of Hippo

And that's the way things have gone along from that day until this. Not staying the same, but always changing. And that's okay, because once one part of a thing changes, all the other pieces begin to shift, and pretty soon it's a whole new story. — Jenny Wingfield

Love, for those lucky enough to experience it, is extraordinary. — Amber L. Johnson

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. — Margaret Cho