Kapacinskas Edina Quotes

#1. Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.

Farah Diba

#2. It occurred to him to say the viddui, the prayer before death. He struggled to remember it. Blessed are You, who has bestowed me with many blessings. May my death atone for all I have done ... and may I shelter in the shadow of Your wings in the World to Come.

Helene Wecker

#3. Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

Gregory Benford

#4. Individuals in private life, meanwhile, had quite forgiven Hester Prynne for her frailty; nay, more, they had begun to look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of that one sin for which she had borne so long and dreary a penance, but of her many good deeds since.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. Democracy today, especially in the English-speaking world, is a political system that specialises in positioning inadequate, unqualified and dubious types in leadership positions.

Gilad Atzmon

#6. Zen is the vehicle of reality.

Jim Harrison

#7. Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development.

Peter Shepherd

#8. I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

John O. Brennan

#9. Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

Steve Jobs

#10. God's Word never fails. He will always heal you if you dare to believe Him. Men are searching everywhere today for things with which they can heal themselves, and they ignore the fact that the Balm of Gilead (Jeremiah 8:22) is within easy reach.

Smith Wigglesworth

#11. Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks.

Pat Conroy

#12. I don't got to show you no stinkin' bahdges!

John Huston

#13. Loneliness is one thing, solitude is another.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. The most important reason I am concentrating on Winthrop and his shipmates in the 1630s is that the country I live in is haunted by the Puritans' vision of themselves as God's chosen people, as a beacon of righteousness that all others are to admire.

Sarah Vowell

#15. If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world.

Alan Bradley