Eightfold Blade Quotes

#1. Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.

Elizabeth A. Johnson

#2. Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive.

Diane Wakoski

#3. There are all kinds of businesses that Charlie and I don't understand, but that doesn't cause us to stay up at night. It just means we go on to the next one, and that's what the individual investor should do.

Warren Buffett

#4. In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

Peter Lynch

#5. The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.

Machado De Assis

#6. I look for songs that the listener, when they hear it, they believe what I'm singing about, that I know what I'm singing about. That's my whole deal. I try to choose songs that a male or a female can perform and relate to.

Patty Loveless

#7. I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.

David Mamet

#8. I'm fascinated by people who have to reinvent themselves. I did it a few times - I was going to be a physicist before I was passionate about philosophy - and I realized that one more change, and I'm going to start looking like a dilettante.

Lenny Abrahamson

#9. I think Shakespeare had a lot to contribute with his understanding of the human condition.

Sharon Gless

#10. I do not know that everything happens for a reason. I simply know that everything happens.

Erin Loechner

#11. Then, as the storm burst round him, he
rose slowly to his feet and turned his closed eyes toward the Sea.
And the world whistled in his ears.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#12. Sorry - Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someone's getting hurt.

Louis C.K.

#13. [The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than in the self-existence of the universe, visibly destitute of these attributes, and which may be the effect of them.

James Madison