Schoolman Quotes

#1. When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.

Thomas Hobbes

#2. Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets

Emmanuel Mounier

#3. Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. (...) and its crush of suited people, men and women both, all with the averted eyes and vacant faces of lifelong servants. People who see only what they're paid to see.

Margaret Atwood

#5. I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures, then will the spirit endure.

Lu Yen-hsun

#7. As long as I can remember I have been carelessly casting myself uninvited into novels where no self-respecting novelist would have me. This literary gate-crashing of mine must be a sign of a wretched thirsting after immortality.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#8. Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.

Shane Smith

#9. I often conduct interviews in my truck.

William Shatner

#10. I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie.

Ridley Scott

#11. Allah sends down natural disasters to control population explosion. He encourages us to go to war, He creates Pakistan and Akhand Bharat. In doing this, He teaches humans new and innovative methods of birth control.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#12. Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life.

Kathy Mckeon

#13. For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.

Charles Caleb Colton

#14. Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

Winston Churchill

#15. [T]he greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran.

Mitt Romney

#16. God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.

George MacDonald

#17. If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton