Disembody Quotes

#1. If you don't talk about families, then it's easy to disembody subprime mortgages and asset securitization and unemployment rates without remembering that every one of those numbers is a million families.

Elizabeth Warren

#2. I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.

David Cronenberg

#3. The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#4. I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Baruch Spinoza

#5. Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.

John Donne

#6. Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.

George MacDonald

#7. The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to decide: Are you going to mindlessly go the easy way or are you going to go the ethical way?

Katharine Hamnett

#8. One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

Aristotle.

#9. Many think Jesus came to earth so you and I can have a special kind of spiritual experience and then go merrily along, as long as we pray and read our Bibles and develop intimacy with the unseen God but ignore the others-oriented life of justice and love and peace that Jesus embodied.

Scot McKnight

#10. I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

Jamaica Kincaid

#11. If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

Katherine Dunham

#12. You can't blame human nature, and there was nothing more human than curiosity.

Stephen King

#13. After the 1929 crash, the Federal Reserve mistakenly focused its policies on preserving the gold value of the dollar rather than on stabilizing the domestic economy.

Ben Bernanke

#14. Remember, I might be the wind, but you control the kite.

Kathy Reichs

#15. He hadn't been aware he'd felt wrong until he suddenly felt right again.

James S.A. Corey

#16. It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer