Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Krauss

No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

Mark Twain

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Marian Wright Edelman

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

Lauren Beukes

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

Leo Tolstoy

If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.

Peter Kreeft

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

Phil Donahue

I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.

Peter Sellers

Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.

Pierre Trudeau

I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

Martin Schulz

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

Martin Seligman

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

Laini Taylor

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.

Laini Taylor

The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

Lisa Marie Presley

People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

Lisa McMann

I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me.

Lisa Kleypas

And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.

Johnny Cash

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read

John Sununu

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

Pat Robertson

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

Dick Vitale

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

Mitt Romney

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

Pope Francis

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.

Pope Francis

You can't have Christ without the Church,

Peter Thiel

Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.

Ted Haggard

I've never known anyone who has fallen into sin and been successfully restored by the formal church structure. Nor have I ever seen a formal church structure wisely deal with sin, enabling ministry to continue without interruption.

Lewis Tappan

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

Neil LaBute

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.