"Random? You'd almost think we were dealing with an identifiable enemy motivated by a distinct ideology that is drawn verbatim from a particular belief system's scriptures. Nah . . ."

-- Andrew C. McCarthy

#Thinking Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Scripture Quotes

“If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?”
“Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.”
“It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.”
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.”
“I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God. Those of you who are Christian probably believe in the same God, because I think you believe in the God Who created the universe. That's the One we believe in, the One Who created universe--the only difference being you call Him God and we call Him Allah. The Jews call Him Jehovah. If you could understand Hebrew, you would probably call Him Jehovah too. If you could understand Arabic, you would probably call Him Allah....”
“I am reading Jonson's verses to the memory of Shakespeare; an insolent, sparing, and invidious panegyric...”
“The world needs more women filmmakers, so we have to keep encouraging ourselves and one another, and eventually things must get easier for us.”

Source : "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.
“Administrators are like pigs; don't wrestle with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it.”

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