“I think that, as life is passion and action, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”
“U.S. judge, and Civil War veteran, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.” quoted by Christie Blatchford in Globe & Mail July 7, 2006 [filing from Kandahar, Afghanistan]
In my latest National Post column I say Brexit turned into an incomprehensible, messy train wreck because the people meant to be taking Britain out of the European Union didn’t have faith in Britain as a sovereign nation.
“Suppose the government wants to build a highway through my house. Suppose also that they give me the fair market value for my land. This is obscene profit. Obviously I value my land more than the fair market value. If not, I would have sold it.”
R.C. Sproul, Jr. in The Freeman November 1994
“Empty heads have long tongues.”
Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts
“On limited lines I was making progress, but the wings of imagination still drooped nervelessly at my sides.”
Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands
“Her choice [that of the mother/title character in the novel Sophie's Choice] is plainly evil; for the sake of a better result, she has united herself with the sin of the murderer. And in the end the other child dies too. But how could she choose otherwise, if she had no faith in God?”
J. Budziszewski What We Can’t Not Know