First Century Bce Quotes

#1. And the faith that grows out of questioning is stronger than the faith born of blind acceptance. It can withstand the shocks of circumstance. Only he who questions the universe and questions it in utter honesty can grow in his comprehension of the truth.

James Dillet Freeman

#2. It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

Cathy Rigby

#3. What if?..
What if I am all to see?
What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss?
What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everyday
And there is no better way?
What then?

Melody Carlson

#4. I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

Catullus

#5. I have a healthy disrespect for religion. I really do. When Columbus came to this country in 1492 he brought syphilis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, influenza and Christianity. The diseases were curable.

David Feherty

#6. Napoleon said that if it weren't for religion the poor would kill the rich. This may be all you needed to know about any human community. The churches were the real police stations, the real keepers of law and order.

Thomas McGuane

#7. We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Carl Jung

#8. With a nation, as with a boxer, one of the greatest assurances of safety is to add reach to power.

Dean Acheson

#9. See ever so far, there is limitless space outside of that,
Count ever so much, there is limitless time around that."
-from "Song of Myself

Walt Whitman

#10. I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

Stanley Hauerwas

#11. This earth is my sister; I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am. How we admire this strength in each other, all that we have lost, all that we have suffered, all that we know: We are stunned by this beauty, and I do not forget: what she is to me, what I am to her.

Susan Griffin

#12. Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.

Lauren Oliver