Waiel Yagnam Quotes

#1. We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

William Hazlitt

#2. There is no talking rationally, using logic or facts, with someone under the spell of the psychic epidemic, as their ability to reason and to use discernment has been disabled and distorted in service to the psychic pathogen which they carry.

Paul Levy

#3. Historically and geographically speaking, Gnosticism developed at the same time and in the same places as early Christianity, with which it was, and remained, entwined - Palestine, Syria, Samaria, and Anatolia, and later, Ptolemaic Egypt.

Stephan A. Hoeller

#4. The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

C.S. Lewis

#5. From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government.

Chuck Todd

#6. I love acting. I love singing. Eventually, I'd love to go on Broadway. I love New York so much.

Stefanie Scott

#7. Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.

Robert Dallek

#8. Though he sought simplicity, he dread dulness. Dimly conscious that he was dull himself, he craved the stimulus of a quicker mind; yet he feared a dull wife less than a brilliant one, for with the latter how could he maintain his superiority?

Edith Wharton

#9. Every liberal initiative, from welfare to antismoking measures, is justified by reference to 'the children.' Yet the clear result of liberal policies is to harm children even more than adults.

Mona Charen

#10. How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples.

Reif Larsen

#11. I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.

Tobias Lindholm

#12. Responding to the 'great good' within us causes us to be 'great people.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. She was one of those people who seemed to regard busyness as a contest you could win.
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Ann Packer