Hise Quotes

#1. Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.

James A. Haught

#2. Love works magic. It is the finalpurpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe.

Novalis

#3. Philosophy, in its simplest form, is the exploration of the beauty and ugliness of life.

Debasish Mridha

#4. He hurt me," I whispered, feeling a lump in my throat.
"And he'll probably hurt you again. But you know what? You'll hurt him too. When you're with someone for a long time, it's impossible not to feel hurt." - Larene.

Emilia Winters

#5. It seemed to her there was a peacefulness about him that came with resignation, with the extinction of that last hope, like a perfect humility undistracted by the possible, the unrealized, the yet to be determined.

Marilynne Robinson

#6. What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. In Tagalog, we call undocumented people 'TNT,' which means tago ng tago, which means 'hiding and hiding.' So that's literally what undocumented means in Tagalog. And that kind of tells you how Filipinos think of this issue, and really any culture, right?

Jose Antonio Vargas

#8. I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults. And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic. And that was the thing I hated.

Stan Lee

#9. (T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!

Tammy Bruce

#10. Find your happiness before the music of this world falls on deaf ears.

Saim .A. Cheeda

#11. Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

#12. Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens.

Russell Simmons

#13. Uhura, whose name is based on the Swahili word "uhuru" which means freedom, was proof changes in Earth society would be achieved in Gene's hopeful vision of the future.

James Van Hise

#14. It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes
until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway,
critics claimed, was a genius. Was it his genius that drove
him to work hard, or was it hard work that resulted in works
of genius?

James N. Frey