Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Hofstadter

Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Janet Montgomery

I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times.

D. H. Lawrence

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

Mason Cooley

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

Bible Bible

When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

Lloyd Alexander

...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

Clarence Darrow

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

Russell M. Nelson

No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting.

Matthew Arnold

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

Nikolai Gogol

It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

Jessica Brown Findlay

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

Lynn Schusterman

As Jews, we are commanded to give tzedakah - an act of justice, not charity - because it is the righteous thing to do.

Walter Salles

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Tupac Shakur

I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.

Robert Redford

You’re never going to be the same person you are right now.

Sarah Paulson

I am a person who is not mated.

Rick Warren

There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.

Robert K. Greenleaf

The work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work.

Keke Palmer

I've always been who I've been. I've always been this person.

Henry Rollins

You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.

Napoleon Hill

The only person to get even with are those who have helped you.