Ch 36 Quotes & Sayings

I don't have much racial stuff in my act. And no one's ever really threatened me to my face. Threats on the internet don't bother me so much. — Anthony Jeselnik

Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment. — Penn Jillette

But I return to that terrible statement of Bertrand Russell's: "Better Red than dead." Why did he not say it would be better to be brown than dead? There is no difference. All my life and the life of my generation, the life of those who share my views, we all have had one viewpoint: Better to be dead than to be a scoundrel. In this horrible expression of Bertrand Russell's there is an absence of all moral criteria. Looked at from a short distance, these words allow one to maneuver and to continue to enjoy life. But from a long term point of view it will undoubtedly destroy those people who think like that. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Scout - oblivious to our jokes at her expense - pushed forward. "I don't understand why you're arguing with me. You know you have no chance."
Michael clutched at his chest dramatically. "You're killing me, Scout. Really. There's chest pain - a tightness." He faked a groan. — Chloe Neill

That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again — Rumi

To be Spirit-filled is to be controlled or dominated by the Spirit's presence and power. — Billy Graham

The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity. — M. Russell Ballard

This is exactly how Satan works, not through what seems grotesque and repulsive, but through what seduces us. — Michael Schiefelbein

Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but all cultures (save the Eskimo) sanction at least one such plant and, just as invariably, strenuously forbid certain others. Along with the temptation seems to come the taboo. — Michael Pollan

The legwork is always hard. Really finding people that you think are good enough. Just the definition of what we have to do is finding good enough people that you really think are special. — Allison Jones

If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let them work together to accomplish on a worldwide scale, precisely the kind of democratic association of free people which characterizes the Soviet Union today. — Paul Robeson

Discipleship ... a process of unleashing the creative potential in each person. — Erwin Raphael McManus

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit — Klaus Topfer

Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement. — L.M. Montgomery