Pam Brown > Pam's Quotes

“That was the problem with money: What people did with it had consequences, but they were so remote from the original action that the mind never connected the one with the other.”
― Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

“Truth by definition excludes.”
― Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
― Max Lucado

“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”
― John Wesley

“You mean you’re comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it?” “Yes.” Mrs Whatsit said. “You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“I wanted you to do it all for me. I wanted everything to be all easy and simple. . . . So I tried to pretend that it was all your fault . .”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

“Not that the incredulous person doesn’t believe in anything. It’s just that he doesn’t believe in everything. Or he believes in one thing at a time. He believes a second thing only if it somehow follows from the first thing. He is nearsighted and methodical, avoiding wide horizons. If two things don’t fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that’s credulity.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

“From prohibitions you can tell what people normally do,”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

“History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn’t exist. It’s the permutations that matter.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

“You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing—you can always repent, atone—but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

“Mysticism is a degenerate form of contact with the divine, whereas initiation is the fruit of long askesis of mind and heart. Mysticism is a democratic, if not demagogic, phenomenon; initiation is aristocratic.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

“Hesed is not only the Sefirah of grace and love. As Diotallevi said, it is also the moment of expansion of the divine substance, which spreads out to the edge of infinity.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

“these days the right lumps everything together and sees it all as a demo-pluto-social-Judaic conspiracy. Mussolini did the same thing.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

“Manipulating the words of the Book, we attempted to construct a golem.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

“The conspiracy theory of society . . . comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?” —Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, London, Routledge, 1969, iv, p. 123”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

“The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods