All Quotes

"[Eva tries to wave in her special guest from outside the hall]"

"Eva: C'mon, don't be afraid. This is our big day!"

"[She holds her breath and then grins as Jack walks in]"

"[With hesitation, he gazes around at all the strange faces]"

"[Eva takes his hand and walks him to the front of the room. Dodger is already at his seat among Christine's desk, sitting silently and wearing a red cap]"

"[Jack breaks into a huge smirk and points at Dodger]"

"Jack: Ev-a...mon-key."

"[Everyone in the class bursts into warm laughter]"

"[Eva kneels down among her brother, her face glowing with pride]"

"[She points at Jack]"

"Eva: E-va...Jack!"

"[Eva hugs and squeezes him as Jack hugs her back. She kisses him on the forehead and gets up. Then she waves at Dodger, who immediately jumps down to join them]"

"[Standing in the middle, Eva takes Jack's hand on one side and Dodger's hand on the other. She takes a deep breath and grins proudly and confidently at her teacher]"

"Eva: I'm ready for my show-and-tell."

"[All the children applaud]"

"[Eva bows]"

"[Jack grins appreciatively]"

"[And Dodger tips his hat]"

"Milton] felt you could influence the political sphere. So he wrote a lot about politics--of course--and public policy. Not politics--public policy. But at the same time, I think he believed, or at least it was his public persona, that he was also a scientist. That his scientific work was different. That he could, as one EconTalk guest said: He could put on his science hat, and then take it off and put on his ideology hat. And my claim is that that's a delusion--I don't mean to be critical about Milton, who I'm a big fan of, and incredibly important person in my education and in my life. But I think it is--so I don't know how aware or unaware he was about it. I don't want to say he was deluded. But I think many economists are deluded into thinking, and want to believe that they can wear those two hats separately. And it's very self-serving. We need to confront the fact that it's very much in our interest to pretend to the world that we have a scientific aspect to our work that is free of values. And I think that's--I think it's fundamentally deceptive, and dishonest."

"Fuck sissies, fuck tragic love stories, fuck moon-lit peach blossoms and flute-playing scholars! You don't need the reverse motivation of female players, you don't need to take care of those worms who just want to date chicks. Some things are just for men, their depression, their anger, their pain..."

"Know that truthfulness is equivalent to belief (iman) and to the confession of the Unitarian doctrine (tawhid) in ail its perfection. Lying is polytheism, unbelief, and error."

"Let no one of you fear anything but her sin, and let her place her hope on none but God."

"Tell the truth and fear nothing but your sin, and worship none other than your God."

"Happy is he who pursues wisdom to the exclusion of everything else, whose mind and heart the light of wisdom has filled to overflowing, who devotes himself with all his being to meditation in the company of God’s elect. Happy is he who has made wisdom his heart’s abode, to whom its pursuit is the most precious acquisition, who treasures it in himself as in a stronghold inaccessible to those who are not its disciples."

"If human minds would be given the knowledge of God without any familiarization and gradation, those human minds would swoon and fall down."

"...the originator of the perfect Aql. He virtually bound within it all the created beings, so that nothing might be outside of it."

"O you who are distracted, how can he who is devoid of his corporeal means obtain knowledge? O you who are heedless, how can he who abandoned his sensual faculty reach ignorance? And O you who are perplexed, how can the souls exist by themselves? And how can they settle in their origin, and yet have a life and procure their pleasures?"

"Believing in the non-existence negates existence as such. It is a way that leads to unbelief, atheism, and denial."

"Protect divine knowledge from those who do not deserve it and do not withhold it from those who are deserving. He who withholds divine knowledge from those who are worthy of it, will indeed desecrate what he has been entrusted with and will commit sacrilege against his religion; and the conviction of him who divulges it to those who are not deserving will be diverted from following the truth. Scripture must therefore be protected from those who do not deserve it."

"Protect yourselves from ignorance with the help of the knowledge of the unity of our Lord..."

"I enjoin you to safeguard your fellow men. In safeguarding them your faith reaches perfection."

"I want people to question things—that not everything is in The New York Times, which, as they say, is "All the news that's fit to print." I wanted to include the unfit."

"I do not try and shock people. That's never been my intent, but rather to share aspects of culture that I find interesting."

"Upsetting people is a beautiful thing, because it gets people to think beyond their last visit to 7-Eleven."

"I realized that if I went the grant route, my interests would have to coincide with material that was less penetrating of people's emotions. I couldn't have people saying, "Oh, God, what's that horrible thing?" I'd rather have the bottom line question be, "Will enough people buy that book?" rather than, "Will a few people in the ascendancy of academic culture be offended by it?""

"God help me, I'm a pot-smoking libertarian."

"I get a thrill out of being a professional pariah."

"How, why, did I sit with some of these characters long enough to not only obtain quotes, but glean their reptilian essence? Easy. My mind was on the payoff: thousands of people receiving an antidote to the Hallmark Card reality of America. Consider this book an emetic for the soul."

"I hear that politically correct forces are hounding Irving on all ends of the earth, making it very difficult for him to earn a living. You cannot express revisionist views in public, or else you're made a pariah. You’re going against very powerful interests with big museums, big money, and a very dependent Zionist state."

"Yeah, the Jews got pissed at that magazine I sent you. None of them want to see my friend Hitler get his due... [Hitler] lifted the pride of the white people up and tried to get rid of the commies and exile the Jews where they wouldn’t hassle anyone but themselves…But of course "society" is making an “example” of Charles Manson in the same way they made an example of the Germans at Nuremburg."

"In this environment, the intellectual with the greatest freak show wins. Think of Parfrey as equal parts P.T. Barnum, Rod Serling and Hegel. The man can’t be beat when it comes to collecting outré oddities."

"Italia, Italia! o tu cui feo la sorte Dono infelice di bellezza, ond' hai Funesta dote d'infiniti guai Che in fronte scritti per gran doglia porte: Deh fossi tu men bella o almen piu forte, Onde assai più ti paventasse, o assai T'amasse men, chi dal tuo bello a' rai Par che si strugga, e pur ti sfida a morte."

"Love is the gift that brings us nearer Heaven Than any other gift the world can hold, And perfect Love is nearest perfect bliss."

"Ah! "All things come to those who wait" — (I say these words to make me glad). But something answers soft and sad "They come, but often come too late!""

"Car, vois-tu, chaque jour je t'aime davantage, Aujourd'hui plus qu'hier et bien moins que demain."

"Aimer qui vous aime, admirer qui vous admire, en un mot, être l'idole de son idole! ... C'est trop, c'est dépasser les joies humaines, c'est déruber le feu du ciel!"

"Les esprits dont la mission est de détruire les préjugés, sont précisément ceux qui ont la plus de préjugés, et qui les professent avec le plus d'aveuglement."

"Quand on veut dessécher un marais, on ne fait pas en voter les grenouilles!"

"For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so — happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which, separately and of themselves, have little value, but which, united with art form a graceful design. Set the mosaic carefully, and you have a beautiful ornament; learn to understand intelligently the passing enjoyments which chance, which your character gives you, or which Heaven sends you, and you have an agreeable existence. Why always look to the horizon when there are such fine roses in the garden you live in?"

"There is only one proper way to wear a beautiful dress: to forget you are wearing it."