If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of…

I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I hope ["reanimated the papacy"] means that the new interest in the pope evokes a new interest in the Church's teaching, of which the…

— George Weigel

Sports are the ultimate secular religion. Instead of being worried about whether your kids will be okay or how your job is going, you…

— Alex Gibney

Maybe we'll stop training our kids to stop looking at someone and automatically seeing them as Black or White or of this religion or…

— Immortal Technique

If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Politics are wack - it's mostly about the characters instead of the issues, like how religion is about religion instead of spirituality.

— Santigold

As most doctors will tell you, cleansing is ridiculous. You know what's been around longer than that state-of-the-art juicer? Your kidneys. And your liver.…

— Sloane Crosley

Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity,…

— Margaret Sanger

I am in favor of an idea that's been around for a number of years, which is to reward people who are willing to…

— Sally Satel

The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series…

— Aldous Huxley

How are you?" "Perfectly fine," he said. "Are your ribs broken?" "Probably not. Cracked at most. We fought very carefully." "Did this settle anything?"…

— Ilona Andrews

When my son got sick and he was in the hospital, and they took out his kidney when he was less than a year…

— John Feldmann

The brain is a tissue. It is a complicated, intricately woven tissue, like nothing else we know of in the universe, but it is…

— David H. Hubel

Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

— Mallory Ortberg