Amputating Quotes

#1. Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. What kind of a disease is this that, like leprosy, is amputating our families, extremity by extremity, limb by limb? What kind of a disease is this that is taking away our words, cloaking us with silence, numbing us with fear? Eeh, Sister, you tell me.

Makuchi

#3. I feel terribly strange, like a shadow, and full of dread. I dread the time ahead, the amputating time, I do not see how to manage it. I do not want the world to go dark and narrow and mean, and the world has been very unlovely in my eyes, and I very unlovely in it ...

Martha Gellhorn

#4. The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in July 2001, which suggests that women were still wearing painted nails within the safety of their homes.

Virginia Postrel

#5. One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.

Marvin Minsky

#6. She was artificially narrowing herself, amputating every humane and tender piece that didn't fit into a rigid frame.

David Brooks

#7. I believe in unity, as opposed to division.

Tom Shadyac

#8. One way to handle the discrepancy between our beliefs and our sinful inclinations is to repent, pray for grace and forgiveness, and struggle on in the belief that God will forge a greater harmony for us out of our battle with sin. That is the Christian approach. ~ p.75

William Kilpatrick

#9. You can't just boss bacteria around like that," said the younger Mrs. Hempstock. "They don't like it." "Stuff and silliness," said the old lady. "You leave wigglers alone and they'll be carrying on like anything. Show them who's boss and they can't do enough for you. You've tasted my cheese..

Neil Gaiman

#10. The most successful people are often very intuitive. Consciously or unconsciously, they follow their gut feelings. Following intuition puts us in the flow - a very alive, productive, and desirable state.

Shakti Gawain

#11. I can't believe what I said about myself. What I said in my own private conversations with myself to an ESPN producer are my business, and I had no business saying them to someone else.

Don King

#12. If a chick wants to know who makes my shoes, she's got to take them off my feet and look inside.

ASAP Rocky

#13. The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

John Green

#14. See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Socrates

#15. There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.

Mirabel Osler

#16. So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.

Robert Plant

#17. Then I remembered how she was - fiery, ruthless, smart, and despite herself very caring, not a person who hurts anyone.

Mike Bond

#18. The barberry berry sticks on the small hedge,
cold slits the same crease in the finger,
the same thorn hurts. The leaf repeats the lesson.

Robert Lowell

#19. I'm still struggling with the fact that due to my own (selfish) desire to be a writer, my children probably won't have the same opportunities I had growning up. For most students, however, I genuinely think it's about the money. It's a factor, sure. But it just feels like a factor.

Marina Keegan

#20. The reason men rule is because women let them.

Jessica Zafra

#21. A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero