Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Hoggart

What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?

Andrew Greeley

Thirty years ago, before the Vatican Council, Catholics didn't know what liturgy was.

Pope Shenouda III

We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church.

Joseph Zwilling

St. Patrick is the patron saint of the Archdiocese of New York. As such, we celebrate March 17 as a feast day and all Catholics in the archdiocese get a dispensation from the Lenten requirements for that day.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.

Kyle Fisk

Evangelicals and Catholics are probably working more closely today than they have in a really long time.

Martin McGuinness

The tragedy of all this is that we are seeing within the talks process unionists refusing to negotiate, whilst outside the talks process Catholics are being murdered.

John McGreevy

One thing Mark is committed to is Protestant/Catholic dialogue. Notre Dame is a good place to do that. There are lots of serious Catholics and Protestants who want to think about those issues.

Elie Wiesel

Never have the relations between Jews and Catholics been as good.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

Charles Studd

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.

Alan Moore

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away…forever." The Joker

Chinua Achebe

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Edith Wharton

But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.

Eddie Izzard

I can go from blokey to girlie in 15 minutes and then I'm out the door. But that's the fastest I can do it. Becoming a woman takes work.

David Icke

Humanity is at a fork in the road and we can no longer stand there staring at the map pondering which direction to take. It is hardly a choice, after all. One Road leads to a global fascist dictatorship that would control every aspect of our lives, including our thoughts. The other will open the door to freedom and potential on a scale never experienced in the 'world' as we have known it. Hard one, isn't it? A choice between a prison and a paradise?

Derek Jacobi

They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.

Alan Hovhaness

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

Athol Fugard

My essential identity is that of a writer.

Jeff Neubauer

We are a team looking for our identity right now.

Carlos Ghosn

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

Bill Ayers

When someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.

Bernard Malamud

You see in others who you are.

Camille Paglia

Even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become.

Elizabeth Banks

I got Twitter identity theft.

Hankus Netsky

People were sort of stopping having the traditional Jewish music in weddings and ceremonies. And I kind of liked that stuff.

Jerry Seinfeld

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.

Harry Triguboff

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

Harry Triguboff

I realized that we have to do everything we can to preserve the Jewish race. I'm very proud of it, and I think it's wonderful.

Peter Riegert

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.

Lauren Bacall

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

Herman Wouk

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

Judith Butler

Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political commitments?

Adam Mansbach

I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

Marie de France

Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind.

Dennis Miller

We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra. And the Chairman didn't make his bones laying down for punks...

Arthur Golden

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

Bill Gates

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

Bobbi Brown

I layer my moisturizers, which makes my complexion so fresh, I can wear less foundation.

Joe Stellmacher

(Alvarez) lays everything out right there for you.

Peter Hooper

This does not necessarily mean that they are nearly done tightening rates but rather that this process will become less automatic. They are laying the groundwork for this transition.

John Beal

They (the handguns) were loaded and pretty much laying around the house,

Correll Buckhalter

They said that we had to lay it on the line and ....

David Roberts

Nobody realizes that Mormons were the first Americans to settle Las Vegas.

Quinn Allman

Mormons think they live in their own world, ... and that Utah's this place where it's supposed to be perfect. 'God is here.' But he's not. Not any more than he is in Compton.

Rodney Stark

Mormons are an extraordinarily educated and professional population. They have all these virtues: They work hard, don't skip school, have no scandals. Consequently, you find them in a lot of consequential places.

Alan Horowitz

We're going to party opening night. And we want everyone to come out and party with us.

Ed Helms

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

Bill Richardson

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

Robert Niro

(United) 93,' if it was not opening the festival, it would seem strange.

Bill Vickroy

We're just selling tickets for the opening sessions for all these games.

Dave Wannstedt

With us, everything is sort of new, from a personnel standpoint. Simonitis is really the only one that was in the lineup on Opening Day a year ago.

Beth Macmillan

They said not only would they like to sponsor it, but they would like to have it on site as part of their opening ceremonies.

O. J. Simpson

So we're opening up our place to be his new home.

Jed Hoyer

The season isn't going to start for quite a while. There's a lot of teams with openings right now. There's a lot of talk right now. There's a lot more teams talking this time of year than usual.

Harold Ramis

Approaching it skeptically, I wanted to know if you were going to make a sincere scientific investigation, what would be the parameters of that,

Chuck Close

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

Jeremy Irons

Sadly, one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success.

Mark Schlosberg

We want to know what the parameters (of this program) are, what the scope of it is, what are they doing with the information, who are they sharing it with.

Gail Goestenkors

We've watched enough tapes of them to recognize they are scrappy.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand. It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand, ... It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Robert Barnes

They recognize that without the traveler, there is nothing to reorganize.

Chris Priester

They recognized that we need this new hospital.

John Novak

(Auto makers) recognize how many of the Top 50 suppliers are in bankruptcy.

Randal Pinkett

At some level, I am a celebrity. I'm recognized all the time.

Mike Hamilton

Are we going to recognize our tradition or not? If we're going to recognize our tradition, then let's get on with it.

Joe Torre

Sometimes you don't recognize the voice, ... and you look around and it's Robbie.

Thomas Peterffy

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

Jan Ullrich

Today, I had trouble because it was slippery and dangerous,

Jonathan Haidt

Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.

Jack Nicklaus

Oakmont, you've got to be playing slope.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Dan Robinson

unless something is in our refinery in a week or so, we're starved.

Brad Coker

Unless it's over 50 percent, I'm always skeptical. It could pass. It could fail. You can't really make a call.

Larry Ammons

Do you really know the commissioners wishes unless we vote on something?

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Unless you're a serial killer, you're worried about being liked by somebody.

Charles M. Schwab

In the long run, no nation can prosper unless the world prospers.

Esha Gupta

You cannot just scream and yell unless you feel it in your whole body.

Peter Thiel

Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.

Rumi

You have Within you more love than you could ever understand.

Prem Rawat

What you are looking for is within you

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,