Vigen Funeral Home Quotes & Sayings

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure ... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures ... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller. — Nick Clegg

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The problem is this: when we separate Jesus from his ideas for an alternative social structure, we inevitably succumb to the temptation to harness Jesus to our ideas - thus conferring upon our human political ideas an assumed divine endorsement. With little awareness of what we are doing, we find ourselves in collusion with the principalities and powers to keep the world in lockstep with the ancient choreography of violence, war, and death. We do this mostly unconsciously, but we do it. I've done it. And the result is that we reduce Jesus to being the Savior who guarantees our reservation in heaven while using him to endorse our own ideas about how to run the world. This feeds into a nationalized narrative of the gospel and leads to a state-owned Jesus. Thus, our understanding of Christ has mutated from Roman Jesus to Byzantine Jesus to German Jesus to American Jesus, etc. — Brian Zahnd

All of business and all of politics is essentially fiction to those who live them. I have more experience with fiction than most senators because I do it all day, so their world didn't seem that foreign to me. — Joshua Cohen

Never find fault with the absent. — Alexander Pope

The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land. — James Sallis

Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills. — William Osler

In the year 1819 an act of Parliament was proposed limiting the labor of children nine years of age to four-teen hours a day. This would seem to have been a reasonable provision, likely to have won the approval of Christ; yet the bill was violently opposed by Christian employers, backed by Christian clergymen. It was interfering with freedom of contract, and therefore with the will of Providence; it was anathema to an established Church, whose function was in 1819, as it is in 1918, and was in 1918 B. C., to teach the divine origin and sanction of the prevailing economic order. — Upton Sinclair

I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan. — Yayoi Kusama

For as long as we are led by belief, we can never know anything for certain. It is not enough to believe or to have faith, we must know beyond all doubt. For that, we have no other option, but to search, question and investigate! There is no shame in not having found God, Brahman or the Great Spirit, but it is gravely ignorant to dismiss their existence on hearsay. — Anita B. Sulser PhD

Everything starts to break down, however, when a species gains language. What we talk about isn't what we experience - we speak chiefly of interesting things, and those tend to be things that are uncommon. — Brian Christian

If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now? — Marissa Ribisi