Wergild Quotes & Sayings

A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve. — Roland Barthes

Everyone knows what the Masters is, even if you're a non-golfer. People know what Wimbledon is. They know what the Super Bowl is. There are certain events that people just know about. — Tiger Woods

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments. — Rajneesh

What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years. — David Miliband

The type of religion which rejoices in the pious sound of traditional phrases, regardless of their meanings, or shrinks from "controversial" matters, will never stand amid the shocks of life. — John Gresham Machen

For me, getting on a knee and praying is a very special deal for me. A very special moment. For me, it was honoring that and not letting people go out there and make a mockery of it and do a lot of different things and just kind of keeping it safe. — Tim Tebow

Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person. — Lauren Groff

A clean conscience is the preserve of those without sufficient imagination. — Alain De Botton

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible. — Aristotle.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it. — Angela Carter

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness. — Mark Twain

From generation to generation, America should never be the same country. — Bryant McGill