Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Parker

This is a small church that was planted about five years ago with a focus on the post-modern generation. Goths, punks, homosexuals and yuppies make up a large part of the 80,000 people living within a half mile walking radius of the church.

Brennan Manning

The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.

Stephanie McDonald

We have really expanded within the past month. We have around 15 regulars now. We learn new songs, and sing at various churches on Saturdays and Sundays. We have already learned about twelve songs; we will probably learn four or five more before the end of the school year.

Peter Akinola

We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.

Dana Tofig

There is nothing that stops them, except the separation of church and state -- you can't be proselytizing.

Pat Robertson

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

Dan Brown

Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained

Michael Emerson

But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So there's something more going on than just reflecting the neighborhood, yeah.

Michael Lesy

Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Clarence Day

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

Edmund Burke

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Bruce Barton

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Edward Abbey

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Chris Butler

We all want freedom, but real freedom is possible only if we understand our true identity.

John Paul

At that time, I heard you say in Gdansk, 'There is no freedom without solidarity.' Today we need to say, 'There is no solidarity without love.' Indeed, there is no future for the individual and the nation (without love).

Anna C. Brackett

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Bob Brennan

You have to use your mind instead of gears.

Andrea Seigel

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

Terry Egan

So instead of PowerPoint you have presentation software and instead of Microsoft Word you have word processing software.

Hilton Armstrong

We don't want to lose to them twice. It was our mistake. We need to come out and play a little tighter 'D' instead of being so loose.

Ranulph Fiennes

Will I spend my life in a wheelchair? Tottering around my lounge, instead of running up mountain passes or navigating glaciers?

Sonny Schofield

He showed up. If we can get production out of our post players every night like that instead of every now and again, we can be tough.

Drake Johnstone

I am most surprised by the lack of competitive response by AT&T and WorldCom. If AT&T had lowered rates they would have stable revenue instead of double-digit declines.

Shawan Robinson

I think we just got tight. Instead of playing to win, we were playing not to lose.

Sophia Loren

I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing!

Lucy Fisher

The earliest movies that I loved were French movies and Italian movies. I grew up watching those kind of movies and often find the truest looks at human nature - you can find them in another countrys movies.

J. B. Smoove

This Italian restaurant I'm at is authentic! When they seat you, they give you a mustache.

Irving Babbitt

Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

Jack Kemp

Health care amounts to l4% of our GNP-a lot of money. It is the size of the Italian economy. And the president turned it over to his wife.

John Scully

He has always been a real straight shooting type of old school Italian guy.

Robert Cray

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

Rocky Marciano

Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood

Yotam Ottolenghi

Pizza was made for television in so many ways: it is easy to heat up, easy to divide and easy to eat in a group. It is easy to enjoy, easy to digest and easy-going. It is so Italian!

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

Francis Bacon

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

James Brown

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Michael Ignatieff

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.

Narendra Modi

We have not come into politics with 'Badle ki Bhavna' but we have come with 'Badlav Ki Bhavna'.

Liev Schreiber

You should never ask actors about politics.

Todd Jones

The signs are there that they can do it. It's going to take a long time for them to get to that Target level.

Saul Williams

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

Olivier Gasnier

There are really no encouraging signs in this survey.

Jon Alterman

There hasn't been a 'peace process' for some time, and I don't see any signs there's going to be one resuming.

Auberon Waugh

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Matt Smith

I am a terrible sleeper.

Laurie Simmons

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

Tarshanda Ferguson

A win is a win, but it was an ugly one. I'm very disappointed on the way that we played. We did not play hard, and we were not focused.

Stanislaw Lem

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

Erma Bombeck

Bombeck's Rug Rule: an ugly carpet will last for ever.

J. K. Rowling

I bet you’re not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute?

Robert Trout

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.

William Cobbett

All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.

Margo Timmins

When we do get to the point where things aren't good, we know how to smarten up and fix it before it gets ugly.

Neil Cavuto

I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots.

Lauren Myracle

I loved everyone who said yes to the world and tried to make it better instead of worse, because so much in the world was ugly- and just about all the ugly parts were due to humans.