Shopsy's Quotes

#1. You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift , not from Shopsy's.

Robertson Davies

#2. We can have Americans eating affordably and eating in a way that's sustainable.

Eric Schlosser

#3. Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Karl Marx

#4. Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.

Walter J. Phillips

#5. The Bible says a man's heart is desperately wicked, and who can know it? We're all capable of more evil than we realize.

Colleen Coble

#6. Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.

Arundhati Roy

#7. Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion ... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. Of the two, the one will always follow, the other will always lead, whatever be the course of their destiny.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers - just to upset the critics.

Bob Ross

#10. I walk into a huge pasture. I nurse the milk of millennia.

Rumi

#11. If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. She had to strive to make every thought obedient to the love of Christ whatever violent feelings churned within her. She had to take her every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and leave no room for anger and jealousy and thoughts of revenge.

Francine Rivers

#13. When consuming goods rather than satisfying work becomes the focus of our culture, we have created (or acquieced in) a society of permanent adolescents.

Susan Neiman