Michael > Michael's Quotes

“Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.”
― Yeats

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

“The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.”
― John Shelby Spong, Eternal Life: A New Vision: Beyond Religion, Beyond Theism, Beyond Heaven and Hell

“Morning came to the window of the street.”
― Laura Nyro

“I'm a pretty good cook
Sitting on my groceries
Come up to my kitchen
I'll show you my best recipe
I try and I try but I can't save a cent
I'm up after midnight, cooking
Trying to make my rent
I'm rough but I'm pleasin'
I was raised on robbery”
― Joni Mitchell

“You aren't too smart, are you? I like that in a man.”
― Lawrence Kasdan, Body Heat: The Screenplay

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.”
― John Wayne

“I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them, if that's what you're asking. Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”
― John Wayne, The Playboy Interview: Men of Action

“In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act”
― Aldous Huxley

“My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.”
― John Dominic Crossan, Who Is Jesus? Answers to Your Questions About the Historical Jesus

“We walk into the mystery of God; we do not define that mystery.”
― John Shelby Spong, Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy: A Journey into a New Christianity Through the Doorway of Matthew's Gospel – Recovering Jewish Scripture Through Progressive Theology

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
― Bertrand Russell

“When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.”
― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.”
― Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
― James Waterman Wise

“But when fascism comes it will not be in the form of an anti-American movement or pro-Hitler bund, practicing disloyalty. Nor will it come in the form of a crusade against war. It will appear rather in the luminous robes of flaming patriotism; it will take some genuinely indigenous shape and color, and it will spread only because its leaders, who are not yet visible, will know how to locate the great springs of public opinion and desire and the streams of thought that flow from them and will know how to attract to their banners leaders who can command the support of the controlling minorities in American public life. The danger lies not so much in the would-be Fuhrers who may arise, but in the presence in our midst of certainly deeply running currents of hope and appetite and opinion. The war upon fascism must be begun there.”
― John T. Flynn, As We Go Marching: A Biting Indictment of the Coming of Domestic Fascism in America

“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”
― Theodore Parker, The present aspect of slavery in America and the immediate duty of the North: a speech delivered in the hall of the State house, before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Convention, on Friday night, January 29, 1858

“To reach something good, it is useful to have gone astray.”
― St. Teresa of Avila

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“We are as sick as our secrets.”
― Stephen Arterburn

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut