Wietlaner Quotes & Sayings

When the Bible offends you, be encouraged that it offends everyone at some point. Consider the responsibility of the Bible. It must speak the truth to every culture through every era of history. I believe that there has never been a culture on earth that has not been offended by the Bible on some issue. What offends one group could be common sense to another and vice versa. Some cultures are offended that God would judge people for their sin. Some cry out to God to judge people because of sin. There are some cultures that are appalled at how God would forgive people no matter what they have done. For other cultures, that kind of forgiveness is expected of God. — Jon Morrison

The medicalization of American life from birth to death is killing our souls. — Hattie Bryant

The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine. — Leroy Hood

You're Mac, and I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. — Karen Marie Moning

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas. — Orson Welles

Someone laughed behind Harry. Turning, he saw Fred, George, and Lee Jordan hurrying down the staircase, all three of them looking extremely excited. "Done it," Fred said in a triumphant whisper to Harry, Ron, and Hermione. "Just taken it." "What?" said Ron. "The Aging Potion, dung brains," said Fred. — J.K. Rowling

Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't use it as an excuse to reject our tools; rather, we should decide that we need to make better tools to solve the problems caused by the initial tools in a progressive wave of innovation. — Jason Silva

Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy the peace, the happiness of a hoe. — Helen Hunt Jackson

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence. — David McCallum

The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution. — Joseph Campbell

Every now and then a perverse downdraft would make the smoke whirl and puff toward him and he breathed some of it in.
It built dreams in the same way that a small irritant may build a pearl in an oyster. — Stephen King

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist. — Richard Dawkins

Like interviewing a new cleaner. Do you want someone who can give you the history of cleaning and the theory of cleaning, or do you want someone who'll just get down and clean your fucking house? They chose you because they think you'll clean their fucking house. — Robert Harris

I'm the third or fourth generation of actor in my family; I'm sure if they were butchers, I'd be a butcher, too. — Sean Pertwee

At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man. — Hans Christian Andersen