Auken Quotes & Sayings

Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream. — Larry Bucshon

There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business. — David K. E. Bruce

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record. — Archibald Primrose

I go because I sit in judgment on every poor, ulcerous bastard I know. Which in itself doesn't bother me too much. At least, I judge straight from the colon when I judge, and I know that I'll pay like hell for any judgment I mete out, sooner or later, one way or another. — J.D. Salinger

Sheldon Van Auken wrote,"The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness." Guess what he said is the best argument against it? "When Christians are sombre, joyless, self-righteous, smug, narrow, repressive - Christianity dies a thousand deaths. — John Ortberg

The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind. — F.H. Bradley

She had been seized with a sudden existential horror. The house had white carpets and white furniture and, most significantly, no books. — Alexander McCall Smith