Rede Lecture Quotes

#1. In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart.

Pope Benedict XVI

#2. I felt today when the night melted away into a flowering bush and the wind smelled of strawberries and without love one is only a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates and a chance name on it and one might as well die

Erich Maria Remarque

#3. I colour for a living. When I am a good artist, the only difference between me and a child is that I am more wrinkled. When I am not being a good artist, the only difference between me and a child is every difference imaginable.

Janice Tanton

#4. Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.

Winston Graham

#5. If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

John Calvin

#6. I was in love with the sound of the slamming door, it sounded the way i felt, like damn you to hell! and i hate what you're doing to me! and Life sucks.

Ellen Wittlinger

#7. If you get offended by words - by noises we make with our mouths - it means you were raised by bad parents.

Doug Stanhope

#8. Life begins each morning.

Joel Osteen

#9. Me? I'm just a literary girl gone wrong. Slow with the tongue. Quick with the pen. Undeniably cute. But, on the whole, ill-equipped for the privilege of living.

Koren Zailckas