Bilbos Birthday Speech Quotes & Sayings

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. — Moliere

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you. — Dallas Willard

No Socialist system can be established without a political police. Many of those who are advocating Socialism or voting Socialist today will be horrified at this idea. That is because they are short-sighted, that is because they do not see where their theories are leading them. No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance. And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of Civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil. — Winston S. Churchill

A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or to those who present government as the place where one feathers his own nest, [or] exchanges favors with friends and former associates. — Archibald Cox

When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers. — Ray Bradbury

Now these things know I'm here. But I'm alive. And if you're alive, you can fight to live another day. — Manel Loureiro

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life. — Jessica Zafra

The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction. — Malcolm Muggeridge

I will never tell anyone when I feel bad again. I will never confide a weakness. It does not work. It makes things worse. — Caitlin Moran

Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't know but we gotta go. — Jack Kerouac

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that sometimes one needs help with moving the piano. — Rebecca West

It's impossible to be a good Christian. If you think it's easy to be a good Christian, then you're not really trying hard enough. — John Tesh