"And what I've come to learn is that it's the manufacturer's handbook, is what I call it. It teaches us how to run our lives individually, how to run our families, how to run our churches. But it teaches us how to run all of public policy and everything in society. And that's the reason as your congressman I hold the Holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I'll continue to do that."

Source : "Republican congressman: evolution is 'lies straight from the pit of hell'" by Alex Hern, www.newstatesman.com. October 8, 2012.

Paul Broun

#Running Quotes #Church Quotes #Vote Quotes

“We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two "Eds" are better than one.”
“Depict a leader who seemed overwhelmed and rarely made key decisions.”
“But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, p.205, SteinerBooks
“If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.”
“I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.”
“We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by people we don't remember. We are haunted by otherness, by the path not taken, by the life unlived. We are haunted by the changing winds and the ebbing tides of history. And even as our own flame burns brightest, we are haunted by the embers of the first dying fire. But mostly, said Lord Jim, we are haunted by ourselves.”

Source : Jonathan Evison (2012). “West of Here”, p.465, Algonquin Books
“So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.”

Source : Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.101, Paradise Publishing

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