"Weâ€™ve been fighting about gay marriage for what, 15-20 years now. Is there any evidence that fighting gay marriage is contributing to a greater appreciation among the broad society of the marital institution? Is there any evidence that the re-institutionalization of marriage is happening as a result of opposing gay marriage? And the best answer I can give to that is 'no.'"

-- David Blankenhorn

#Appreciation Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Gay Quotes

“The price is certainly high for people who donâ€™t know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and settle into self-indulging faith. While Christians choose to spend their lives fulfilling the American dream instead of giving their lives to proclaiming the kingdom of God, literally billions in need of the Gospel remain in the dark”
“For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.”

Source : "Paul: GOP 'has grown stale and moss-covered'" by Emily Schultheis, www.politico.com. March 14, 2013.
“She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it had time to make sense, by the word that came next; so that in the end she did not know what had been said. It was like difficult music heard for the first time.”
“...I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind...”

Source : Wilder Penfield (2015). “Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain”, p.9, Princeton University Press
“Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.”
“How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?”

Source : Philip Taaffe, Stan Brakhage (1998). “Philip Taaffe: composite nature : a conversation with Stan Brakhage”, Blumarts
“It just bothered me that you might think I'm somethin special. I aint.”
“Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.”

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