Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. A. Milne

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

Abraham Cowley

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

Evan Thomas

Yeah, sort of good. I mean, there's a split in the Republican Party. Republicans used to be, once upon a time, for fiscal conservatism, and there are a few of those left, and they're starting to murmur more, and, you know, people forget Ronald Reagan raised taxes, you know, he cut taxes, but then he raised taxes. George Bush, the father, raised taxes. It's not, there's no law in the Bible that says a Republican can never raise taxes.

Jan Peterson

We are excited at the prospect of reading the entire Bible and having someone explain it to us.

Robert Ingersoll

The real oppressor, enslaver, and corrupter of the people is the Bible

Fred Hammond

The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification.

Elie Wiesel

The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough.

Billy Graham

I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

Abel Ferrara

Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

Viggo Mortensen

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

Suzanne Collins

It’s the first time I’ve ever kissed a boy, which should make some sort of impression I guess, but all I can register is how unnaturally hot his lips are from the fever.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Bring mine unopened, with a napkin and an opener. (Blaine) What? Afraid I’m going to spit in it, big boy? (Aimee)

Norah Vincent

There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.

John Steinbeck

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.

John Steinbeck

But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.

Kin Hubbard

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

Plato

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

Peyton Manning

I like to be able to do things on my own. I'm a big boy. I can drive myself to an appearance or get on a plane. I like a little bit of independence.

Pat Robertson

...There is no such thing as ... separation of state and church ... in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left.

Harper Lee

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

Dick Vitale

I went to church and Jim and his wife, Liz, went to see the home.

Cynthia Brust

The Episcopal Church has been hijacked by the revisionist leadership.

Jacques Maritain

The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

Henry B. Eyring

The family unit is fundamental not only to society and to the Church, but to our hope for eternal life.

Henry Adams

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.

Mahatma Gandhi

Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress.

John C. Maxwell

The church will not stay the same. It will either blossom because someone understands the season the church is in, or it will wither very quickly.

Bobby Robson

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

Morris Chestnut

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen.

Mack Brown

Most players don't mind drug testing once they realize they don't have to study for it.

David Wright

Last year we started off pretty horrible and this year we're off to a good start. If this was a football season we'd be sitting pretty right now, but in baseball, we have a long way to go.

Travis Taylor

No, I don't have anything to prove. I just want to go out here and make some plays and win football games.

Justin Long

I can't even go watch a football game,

Jim Harbaugh

Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations...

Jim Harbaugh

It's more than personal. I can't screw it up. I have to do...

Jerry Rice

As a fan, you want to be able to go to a football game, you want to feel secure, you want to be able to just watch the game, root for your team, and that's the way it should be.

Chris Chelios

I wanted it to be like 40-below, wind, storm. That's the only thing that would have saved the Bears. That's what killed them was those passes. Too bad. It was a good year for them.

Ben Orth

I wanted to have my senior in that last match. It was a tough loss, but there was good wrestling nonetheless. We wrestled to our potential.

Arron Afflalo

I wanted to congratulate him on a good year, but I didn't want to do anything dramatic, like hug him for an hour.

Travis Williams

I wanted to come someplace where I thought we would win and a place that I thought had a good program.

Jared Zabransky

I wanted to come out and show really what I was made of. Good players have a tendency to come back. I really wanted to help my team.

Dan Camp

I wanted to come in and 'stir the pot' a little. I think that is what I have done, and I think it has been good for Starkville.

Jacob Lusk

The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place.

John Dickinson

A doctor's signature was not good enough after 2001.

Dwyane Wade

The one thing I love about my signature performance shoe is that it's great on the court, but it also looks good with a pair of jeans.

Cheryl Morris

They kept pushing him to do his best.

Rob Enderle

They kept making promises they couldn't keep, and their strategy was all over the map.

Bill Herrion

They kept going wherever they wanted to go on offense. Switching to zone kind of saves us in the first half, but we kept shooting ourselves in the foot, throwing it away and turning it over.

Will Manhart

They kept getting to the rim strong on us. They played like the talent they have. We kept trying and trying, but you realize they are putting it on you.

Ron McBride

They kept getting better as it went on, and the other team kept getting worse.

Roosevelt Kiser

They just kept scoring. I don't remember when I thought that, but I just know at some point it got out of hand.

Donalyn Woeste

They just kept going and didn't give up. That was awesome.

Bob Boldon

They just executed better. They kept taking it to us, and we weren't responding.

Ron Collins

It was just one of those things that kept steamrolling. ... You just kept seeing him blossoming.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Charles Kettering

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Demi Lovato

When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's "normal" and started to love myself.

Demetri Martin

I think it's interesting that cologne rhymes with alone.

Bernie Sanders

What the Des Moines Register said - you know, there were coin - I think there were half a dozen coin flips - a fairly chaotic type situation. At the end of the day, no matter how it's recounted, it will break roughly even. I love and respect the caucus process in Iowa. See, and I don't have to say it, because they voted already.

Stephen Jay Gould

Rifkin's assertions bear no relationship to what I have observed and practiced for 25 years ... Either I am blind or he is wrong - and I think I can show, by analyzing his slipshod scholarship and basic misunderstanding of science, that his world is an invention constructed to validate his own private hopes ... Rifkin shows no understanding of the norms and procedures of science: he displays little comprehension of what science is and how scientists work.

Stephen Jay Gould

Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.

Orson Scott Card

Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.