Elionor Ostrom Quotes

#1. Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

Horace Bushnell

#2. She didn't tell me how to live, and I didn't tell her how to die. We let sleeping dogs lie.

Jardine Libaire

#3. 'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

Al Purdy

#4. Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better.

Francis Quarles

#5. The knowledge of course and effect is superior to miracles.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. [T]hat finally is the questions, that is the anguish
to abide in God's hiddenness is one thing, to abide in God's absence is altogether something else.

Lauren F. Winner

#7. Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.

Doug Stanhope

#8. Jesus
if Kilgore Trout could only write! Rosewater exclaimed. He had a point: Kilgore Trout's unpopularity was deserved. His prose was frightful. Only his ideas were good.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.

Jessica Szohr