Genesis Revisited Quotes

#1. It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Anatole France

#2. Any other, was disgusted, and attended his preaching no more.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#4. Columbia Heights was a poor, messed up area, and the church was in the middle of it. What happened inside was a reflection of the community. I actually saw my first rock concert on the altar of that church [St. Stephen's].

Ian MacKaye

#5. Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands.

Jefferson Davis

#6. I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

Boris Pasternak

#7. If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

Luis Alberto Urrea

#8. I had this dream that I was going to come to New York and be a writer.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#9. I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

Ednita Nazario

#10. Try to imagine this formless, liquid abyss of many waters and surfaces. With and within this awesome, abysmal substance, God Mother creates universes. We are made from this stuff, literally! And we literally live, move, and have our being in this fathomless, multi-dimensional matrix.

Stefan Emunds

#11. We have a rare chance to pursue a new path, a different, better future that delivers progress for both our peoples and the wider world. That's the opportunity before the Iranian people. We need to take advantage of that.

Barack Obama

#12. As laughter is one way of appraising the serious, so the comic must be taken seriously if it is to be rated at its true value. No one understands a joke by laughing at it; he laughs at it because he understands it.

James Walsh

#13. I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

Roseanne Barr

#14. I'm going to be killed by two psychos.

Caelia Sky

#15. God Child is a free and inspirational translation of Adam. Adam means 'human', not 'man'. The Hebrew for 'man' is 'aish'. In English man can mean both man and human, which may have caused the confusion in the first place. If Adam isn't the first male Homo sapiens, who or what is he?

Stefan Emunds