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“In love's field was never found A nobler weapon than a wound.”
Source : 'The Flaming Heart Upon the Book and Picture of Saint Teresa', collected in Carmen Deo Nostro (published posthumously,1652).
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“I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.”
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“Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill”
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“Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now.”
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“It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that there is no God. But to have infinite knowledge, you would have to be God yourself. It's hard to be God yourself and an atheist at the same time!”
Source : Ron Carlson, Ed Decker (2003). “Fast Facts on False Teachings”, Harvest House Pub
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“So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.”
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“The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.”
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“I get very heated about anything that is socially unkind.”
Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.