Ross Douthat I didn’t really start writing about the church in earnest until the mid-2000s, so I wasn’t present for or a participant in a lot of the John Paul II-era debates about papal authority. – Ross Douthat Authority Quotes Church Quotes Debates Quotes Earnest Quotes Iiera Quotes John Quotes Lot Quotes Papal Quotes Participant Quotes Paul Quotes Start Quotes Writing Quotes I don’t think of ‘heretic’ as a pejorative term – necessarily. I get the sense people sort of imagine that in my personal religious life I must be an intense rigorist wearing a hair shirt under my clothes while scourging myself. And, really, I’m not a rigorist by temperament.
James Bovard How many McDonald’s gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President? – James Bovard
Peter Benchley A human being is still more likely to die of a bee sting, snake bite or, Lord knows, automobile accident than by shark attack. We do not execute the perpretrators of death by car. We should not butcher an animal for an inadvertent homicide. – Peter Benchley
Rafael van der Vaart I never had anything against Arsenal, but when I joined Spurs I tried to learn about the club’s traditions and I soon found out about the magnitude of the match. – Rafael van der Vaart
Joanna Garcia I live at Gap Kids; I think they have the cutest stuff. I barely buy anything for myself, but my daughter has quite the collection. – Joanna Garcia
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