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“By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.”
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“Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks”
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“I decide I'm not dead because I can hear the sound of the rain hitting the roof of the car. I'm alive because I'm listening to the rain, and the rain becomes the hand of God strumming his fingers on the roof, deciding what to do.”
Source : Lisa Genova (2011). “Left Neglected”, p.71, Simon and Schuster
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“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.”
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“The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.”
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“My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.”
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“God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.”
Source : Thomas Hale (1995). “On Being a Missionary”, p.18, William Carey Library
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“I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.”
Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.286, Univ of California Press