Leavingthe Quotes

#1. The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.

Thomas Hobbes

#2. I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.

Dave Brubeck

#3. You're afraid of becoming your dad. You don't want to choose the wrong thing, so you don't choose anything at all.

Nicola Yoon

#4. I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

Nick Cave

#5. They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.

Ed Asner

#6. This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.

John Burnside

#7. Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

Jerry Spinelli

#8. I don't like to watch myself. I can't get into the story; I'm too critical.

Cheyenne Jackson