"Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant."

-- Edward Gibbon

#Christian Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #Sober Quotes

“You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.”
“A likely source for terrorists seeking to buy or steal nuclear materials is the former Soviet Union.”
“Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.”
“Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.”
“Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend.”
“For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned gunmen ready to blow your head off as you run for a train. When the city of distorting mirrors revealed itself, through its districts and discriminations, I discovered more about London's past as a reworking of my own submerged history.”

Source : Iain Sinclair (2007). “London: City of Disappearances”, Penguin Global
“I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It was still quite late when I got married, 30s, I don't know.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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