"Plenty of people out there think of me as the Antichrist or the devil incarnate because I do not affirm the literal patterns of the Bible. But the fact is I can no more abandon the literal patterns than I could fly to the moon. I just go beyond them."

-- John Shelby Spong

#Moon Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.”
“I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated. Now I'm trying to let what's in there come out and acknowledge where I come from. I'm trying to make it more. ..true.”
“Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.”
“Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux”

Source : Erik Satie, IVAM Centre Julio González (1996). “Erik Satie: del chat noir a dadá : IVAM Centre Julio González, 19 septiembre-10 noviembre 1996”
“Look, that homeless guy is sleeping on my face. New York really is where dreams come true.”
“Granana doesn't understand what the big deal is. She didn't cry at Olivia's funeral, and I doubt she even remembers Olivia's name. Granana lost, like, ninety-two million kids in childbirth. All of her brothers died in the war. She survived the Depression by stealing radish bulbs from her neighbors' garden, and fishing the elms for pigeons. Dad likes to remind us of this in a grave voice, as if it explained her jaundiced pitilessness: "Boys. Your grandmother ate pigeons.”
“The American administration is trying to achieve any gain in the shadow of the embarrassment hitting it because of its failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine after the failure of Israel's war on Lebanon and the retreat of America's project in the region.”

Source : "Senior Shiite Cleric Says U.S. Desperate". Forbes, August 7, 2007.
“I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.”

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