Yay New President Quotes & Sayings

The American mind was shaped in the mold of early modern Protestantism. Religion was the first arena for American intellectual life, and thus the first arena for an anti-intellectual impulse. Anything that seriously diminished the role of rationality and learning in early American religion would later diminish its role in secular culture. The feeling that ideas should above all be made to work, the disdain for doctrine and for refinements in ideas, the subordination of men of ideas to men of emotional power or manipulative skill are hardly innovations of the twentieth century; they are inheritances from American Protestantism. — Richard Hofstadter

The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we are capable of forming; so that now as we plunge into that darkness which is beyond intellect, we shall find ourselves not simply running short of words but actually speechless and unknowing. — Pope Dionysius

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart. — Paulo Coelho

I told her that my happy yellow teapot has a kinky backstory involving a nineteenth-century vegetarian sex cult in upstate New York whose members lived for three decades as self-proclaimed "Bible communists" before incorporating into the biggest supplier of dinnerware to the American food-service industry, not to mention harboring their most infamous resident, an irritating young maniac who, years after he moved away, was hanged for assassinating President Garfield. — Sarah Vowell

When we first invested in Red Hat, it was thought to be totally insane. When we funded MySQL, it was only partly insane. — Kevin Harvey

You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right. — Elizabeth Warren

Only the free mind knows what Love is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The wrong action done at the wrong time spells disaster The right action done at the wrong time spells resistance The wrong action done at the right time spells mistake but The right action done at the right time spells a miracle — John C. Maxwell

There are 22 million people who have, some point in time, played hooky from work or school, so it's already an unofficial holiday, — Ozzie Smith

I had a salad. If I were to say that today's tomatoes were an index of the decline of Western man I should be thought a crank but nations do not, I think, ascend on such tomatoes. — Russell Hoban

Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another. — Marianne Williamson

In a relationship there is always one who loves more...
You're lucky if you're not the one — Subhasis Das

It was going to be alright. At last. For a while. — Charles Bukowski

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself. — Frank Langella

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life. — David Hyde Pierce

Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn't. — Gerard Way