Scotus Quotes

#1. Quote from Ranger Captain David Craig, character in Voice in the Wilderness, page 187:
"If the House and the Senate had the guts to stick to it [Constitution], and we could trust SCOTUS to uphold it, we wouldn't be in this mess.

H.L. Wegley

#2. The air in the room was so cold, the exposed flesh of his face felt like ice. "I'll be the first person to get frostbite in a house sleeping several feet from a roaring fire.

Hunter Shea

#3. You are the prisoner, the prison and the prison keeper. Only you hold the key to your freedom.

Ricky Mathieson

#4. Most institutions of higher learning in the West were founded by and for religious denominations. The supposed alienation of education and faith is a recent phenomenon. At the same time, neither education nor the lack of it predisposes one to faith.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. Every visible and invisible creature is an appearance of God.

Johannes Scotus Eriugena

#6. Observe the forms and beauties of sensible things and comprehend the Word of God in them. If you do so, the truth will reveal to you in all such things only He who made them.

Johannes Scotus Eriugena

#7. Authority that is not confirmed by true reason seems weak. Whereas true reason does not need to be confirmed by any authority.

Johannes Scotus Eriugena

#8. I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings.

Don DeLillo

#9. I sometimes think about the tower at Pisa as the first particle accelerator, a (nearly) vertical linear accelerator that Galileo used in his studies.

Leon M. Lederman

#10. The end of all motion is its beginning; for it terminates at no other end save its own beginning from which begins to be moved and to which it tends ever to return, in order to cease and rest in it.

Johannes Scotus Eriugena

#11. They knew each other very well
so well that they could sit now in that soothing silence which is the very highest development of companionship.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#12. Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

Bruce Lee

#13. Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.

Johannes Scotus Eriugena

#14. We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.

Johannes Scotus Eriugena

#15. If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

Park Chan-wook

#16. Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.

Ronald Reagan

#17. Classroom Activities
1. Using felt and yarn, make a hand puppet of Clarence Thomas. Ta-da! You're Antonin Scalia!

Jon Stewart

#18. It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

Bode Miller