Johanna De Silentio Quotes

#1. If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An honest and competent biology teacher can only conclude that the sect's beliefs are wrong and that its religion is a false one.

George Gaylord Simpson

#2. Winning isn't always championships.

Michael Jordan

#3. wasn't on that list. Probably.

Denise Grover Swank

#4. Pam's father had been diagnosed with rectal cancer. It didn't surprise me. Put a bunch of white assholes together and you're going to find that going around.

Stephen King

#5. What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.

Edmund Husserl

#6. I don't really know anything about fashion, I just kind of wing it and do what I want at the time.

Keiynan Lonsdale

#7. Anger is momentary madness.

Horace

#8. You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.

Brennan Manning

#9. When I visited Ireland with my father and heard the people on the farm talking, I couldn't believe the gift of language they had. I felt very untalented.

John Patrick Shanley

#10. Jackie laughed, although she didn't find it funny. There are other reasons for laughter.

Joseph Fink

#11. A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'

Judah Smith

#12. Rostov went on ahead to fulfil the request, and to his great surprise learned that Dolokhov the brawler, Dolokhov the bully, lived in Moscow with an old mother and a hunchback sister, and was the most affectionate of sons and brothers.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired.

Joseph Epstein

#14. In the years since then, Richard had run into Dirk from time to time and had usually been greeted with that kind of guarded half smile that wants to know if you think it owes you money before it blossoms into one that hopes you will lend it some.

Douglas Adams

#15. Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.

Johanna De Silentio

#16. You always end up with too much, so it's good to be part of the conversation about not just what you can omit, but how you are going to do the grammar of the omission, how you make things continue to work when there's something missing. It's your last chance to rewrite.

Tom Stoppard