Xenate Quotes & Sayings

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance — Neil Young

Perhaps you didn't say much about him, mother, but Gerald said lots - dreadful things!'
'Yes,' said the Duchess, 'he said what he thought. The present generation does, you know. To the uninitiated, I admit, dear, it does sound a little rude. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Look upstream. Just simply turn around; have you no will? — Annie Dillard

One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal. — Freeman Dyson

Zoologists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50
but my respect always goes to the cool, sure, impersonal, delicately poised feline who minds his business and never slobbers. — H.P. Lovecraft

Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life. — O.J. Simpson

Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope. — John Twelve Hawks

The moment was all we truly had: a succession of moments, a triumphal march of them, to create a life beyond compare. — Margaret George

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty. — Baron De Montesquieu

Troubles, they may come and go, but good times, they're the gold. — Dave Matthews Band

Once again, the point of this discussion is not to accuse Christians of endorsing torture and persecution. Of course most devout Christians today are thoroughly tolerant and humane people. Even those who thunder from televised pulpits do not call for burning heretics alive or hoisting Jews on the strappado. The question is why they don't, given that their beliefs imply that it would serve the greater good. The answer is that people in the West today compartmentalize their religious ideology. When they affirm their faith in houses of worship, they profess beliefs that have barely changed in two thousand years. But when it comes to their actions, they respect modern norms of nonviolence and toleration, a benevolent hypocrisy for which we should all be grateful. — Steven Pinker