Pastrix Quotes

#1. As I wrote in Pastrix I, like any good middle-class mainline Protestant, tend to arrogantly look down my theological nose at talk of demon possession as superstitious snake-handling nonsense, as though it's the spiritual equivalent of a monster truck rally.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#2. Governments too steady and uniform, as they are seldom free, so are they, in the judgment of some attended with another sensible inconvenience: they abate the active powers of men; depress courage, invention, and genius; and produce a universal lethary in the people.

David Hume

#3. If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, 'Well, there are so many people here who haven't murdered anyone. I think I'll go talk to them.' I'll also riot.

Dick Cavett

#4. Sometimes things don't always go the way we want this side of Heaven

Adriana Trigiani

#5. Ingenuity requires creativity.

Veronica Roth

#6. I bet on the game of baseball and I bet on my team, even the mistakes I made, I have to take a different look at someone betting against their own team ... that's throwing the game.

Pete Rose

#7. What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.

Joseph Muscat

#8. The Internet really lets people connect that wouldn't have in the past, and lets conversations happen and connections happen.

Ann Leckie

#9. Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

Vernor Vinge

#10. Life is not a long vacation, but a constant learning process.

Paulo Coelho

#11. I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

Lena Dunham