Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Mapother

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Blake

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

Robert McAfee Brown

To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

Paul Scheuring

Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.

Julian Barnes

Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?

Marilyn Monroe

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

Martin Niemoller

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

Martin Niemoller

First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats - but was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists - and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and then the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me - and there was no one left to do anything about it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

David Lee

Just like Harry you have to learn your way around. You have to go to classes, learn spells, and interact with evil counterparts.

Will Grace

Karen- I'm not good or real...I'm evil, and imaginary.

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Thomas Kempis

It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment.

Edmund Burke

It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

Anton LaVey

Definition of Good and Evil: Good is what you like. Evil is what you don't like.

Bible Bible

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Confucius

He who has really set his mind on virtue will do no evil.

Robert Cormier

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

Jim Caviezel

I think you can't be passive in making this film - or in watching it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

Sarah Vaughan

It puts us in a passive place sometimes, but it can also put (women) in a powerful place.

Mike Marchand

I wanted people to be more than just passive consumers. I wanted them to be part of it.

Rob Hummel

I've been too passive (on offense) and I thought about that a lot on my visit to N.C. State.

Dmitry Oleynikov

There are people working on things like a pill that can be swallowed to take pictures, but that's passive technology. These robots can actually go in and do something.

Sonia Sotomayor

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

John Pilger

Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.

Herman Melville

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.