Stepanie Sembler

“And, as I watched the Lincoln come by degrees to a relationship with what it saw, I understood something: the basis of life is not a greed to exist, not a desire of any kind. It's fear, the fear which I saw here. And not even fear: much worse. Absolute dread. Paralyzing dread so great as to produce apathy.”
― Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You

“We need precise words for Jesus. Otherwise, Christian theology is built on a foundation of sand.”
― Amos Smith, Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

“The August 1 story had carried their joint byline; the day afterward, Woodward asked Sussman if Bernstein's name could appear with his on the follow-up story - though Bernstein was still in Miami and had not worked on it. From the on, any Watergate story would carry both names. Their colleagues melded the two into one and gleefully named their byline Woodstein.

-- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward”
― Carl Bernstein, All the President’s Men

“они – люди как люди. Любят деньги, но ведь это всегда было… Человечество любит деньги, из чего бы те ни были сделаны, из кожи ли, из бумаги ли, из бронзы или из золота. Ну, легкомысленны… ну, что ж… и милосердие иногда стучится в их сердца… обыкновенные люди… в”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, Мастер и Маргарита