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“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.”
Source : "John Stott: 10 Memorable Quotes" by Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. July 28, 2011. 
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“Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. --Mon Semblable”
Source : Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.”
Source : Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume
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“Iran and Iraq have been at war for five years now. The traditional present for a fifth anniversary is wood. Here's a gift suggestion: a big stick to beat some ***** sense into their heads.”
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“The gardener gives us roses, not gardeners.”
Source : Harry Hooton (1961). “It is Great to be Alive”
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“It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.”
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“Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.”
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“I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.”
