Zenny Pirates Quotes & Sayings

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies. — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

R.C. Sproul has written that "we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization." As far as my fundamentalist upbringing goes, Noll says that for the kind of thinking that embraces society, the arts, the human person, and nature - "for that kind of thinking the habits of mind fundamentalism encouraged can only be called disaster. — John Piper

Barack, like any leader, is human.
And, you know, our challenges in this country isn't finding the next person who's gonna deliver us from our own evil.
Because our challenges are us.
The challenges that this country faces is how are we as individuals in this society gonna change?
What are we gonna do differently? — Michelle Obama

It seemed he was the perfect lover, at least for the moment. He did not live where you lived. He did not see you often enough, or for long enough, for you to grow bored, or to feel afraid that you were not feeling love---or worse, that you were. The perfection had a cost, which is that he was not in any true sense a real person. He was a coat you bought off the rack, an unsuperlative fashion statement. — Ben Greenman

Legislation is the art of compromise. — Harry Reid