#amen

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. ↗

— Alice Walker

#been #feel #fundamentally #got #i

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#cover-up #first #first amendment #red #red tape

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends. ↗

— Paul Begala

#catholic #friends #fundamentalist #going #i

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open. ↗

— Clive Bell

#convince #effective #fundamental #good #liberty

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#because #charged #country #faith #highly

Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#bourgeois #concerning #fact #fundamentally #initiated

No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament. ↗

— William Tyndale

#body #doth #hurt #more #sacrament

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross. ↗

— Bono

#across #awe #christ #combination #cross

With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#best #changed #dice #enough #expect

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#anything #because #being #could #enough