"The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious."

-- Kay Redfield Jamison

#Attitude Quotes #Impact Quotes #Dubious Quotes

“The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their fields; children return to school; violence against women declines; trade and economic activity resume; medical and other services become more accessible, and the international focus changes from relief to development and self-sufficiency. All this makes new wars less likely. It is a virtuous cycle that deserves nurture and support.”
“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.”
“Dumb animals we call them, while they bark and neigh and moo. They talk as much as we do - to them we seem dumb too.”
“Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation. I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already.”
“The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.”
“The grace of God is abundant. It is for all lands, for all ages, for all conditions. It seems to undergird everything. Pardon for the worst sin, comfort for the sharpest suffering, brightest light for the thickest darkness.”

Source : Thomas De Witt Talmage (1875). “Daily Thoughts”, p.240
“Was man made stupid to see his own stupidity? Is God by definition indifferent, beyond us all? Is the eternal truth man's fighting soul Wherein the Beast ravens in its own avidity?”

Source : 1951 'The Fury of Aerial Bombardment'.
“I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.”

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