1517 Luther Quotes & Sayings

She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet. — Elvis Costello

...a copy of his Ninty-five Theses, a formal declaration of his arguments against indulgences. This is the document that Luther is said to have nailed to the church door in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. If it happened at all, it was not quite as dramatic as it sounds - this was not an uncommon way to distribute pamphlets and polemics, and the Theses, written in Latin, would not have been accessible to most of the lay townspeople. But the timing - on the eve of All Saints' Day - made the challenge auspicious, and the document was soon thereafter distributed in a German translation by a local printer. — Philip Ball

As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself. — Abby Wambach

thereafter, the selfsame — William Goldman

I only want to talk to you. The robbers are all in bed by now. Drunks, drifters, and poets are the only ones up this late at night. — Kurt Vonnegut

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up. — Tom Robbins

After all, life is not a Hindi movie. — Khaled Hosseini

It can be really painful to have to face how fucked up shit is and how scared people are ... of being alive. Scared of things that are amazing. Scared of things that aren't like television or aren't dead. A lot of people can't deal with three-dimensional human beings, they only know how to deal with other products - they see themselves as other products. When the world only treats you like a dot on a marketing scheme, you can learn to treat yourself and other people like that. — Kathleen Hanna

Latin America and the Caribbean are the happiest on average in the world. — Max Fisher

Do not perform an action for the reward it may bring. Perform it because it is right; it is dharma. — Shelley Schanfield

Starting with Martin Luther's rebellion against the Church of Rome in 1517, led to widespread religious wars founded on philosophical differences: one side took Church authority and tradition as the criterion of truth, the other appealed instead to the Spirit of God acting within the individual believer. — David Hume

It is clear that no one can be made right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life."* — Anonymous

Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life. — Karen Armstrong

I feel the most alive when I write. — Kristy Brown

Yes. However, remember - productivity is more than just the quantity of work done. It is also the quality. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

It really did take Billy Lucas's suicide to wake me up to, kind of, the damage of the success of the LGBT civil-rights movement - higher-profile LGBT people - has done to LGBT youth who are trapped out there in those shitholes. But I don't think we need Pride. I am still opposed, on philosophical grounds, to the flap of the rainbow windsock and the damage that does to us intellectually. — Dan Savage

You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor. — Jim Butcher