Source: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
“Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me”
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Source: Soon to be a Major Motion Picture (1980), p. 297.
Context: There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
"If Obama were Pope" (31 January 2009) http://www.progressiveinvolvement.com/progressive_involvement/2009/01/if-obama-were-pope-by-professor-hans-kung.html
Context: The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has no Congress alongside him as a legislative body nor a Supreme Court as a judiciary. He is absolute head of government, legislator and supreme judge in the church. If he wanted to, he could authorize contraception over night, permit the marriage of priests, make possible the ordination of women and allow eucharistic fellowship with this Protestant churches. What would a Pope do who acted in the spirit of Obama?
“I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
Source: Midnight's Children
“Cute. I think I would prefer to be stabbed in the eye rather than be called cute.”
Source: Magic Strikes
"The Shashi Tharoor column: The creation of India," 2001
“I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.”
Source: The Hundred Secret Senses
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
“Animals that kill usually have far more social relationships than those they prey upon.”
"Letter on Animal Liberation" (1999)
“Badly off as the men… were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.”
Source: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/lkbak10.txt (1888), Ch. 11.
“Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine.”
http://books.google.com/books?id=3sq6RaxZt3cC&pg=PA107&dq=%22no+better+teacher+after+the+apostles+than+st.+augustine%22&lr=&sig=r-kmHoDO6R6wwIs7krbtAS7Jv7E
Luther's Works, American Ed., Robert H. Fischer, Helmut T. Lehman, eds., Concordia Publishing House/Fortress Press, 1959, ISBN 0800603370 (Word and Sacrament III), vol. 37:107
