If something just plain didn't make sense to Alvin, he didn't believe it, and no amount of quoting from the Bible would convince him. Now Taleswapper was telling him that he was right to refuse to believe things that made no sense.

If the author is so interested in Science, why doesn't she take a course in it?

Peg Bracken

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

Amber Tamblyn

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

John Mayer

Politics is politics art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

Youssou N'Dour

Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)

Walt Whitman

No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

John Ruskin

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Eric Hoffer

Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.

Evander Holyfield

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Walter Benjamin

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

Prescott Bush