Champion Jack Dupree Quotes & Sayings

There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned. — Peabo Bryson

The wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises. — Herbert Hoover

He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once. — Neil Gaiman

The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice. — Barack Obama

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play. — Klemens Von Metternich

The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only taken her self-respect but all rights of person; the fruits of her own industry; her opportunities of education; the exercise of her judgment, her own conscience, her own will. — Matilda Joslyn Gage

To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future. — Russell Kirk

And where are we told in the Scriptures that we are to keep the first day at all? We are commanded to keep the seventh; but we are nowhere commanded to keep the first day ... The reason why we keep the first day of the week holy instead of the seventh is for the same reason that we observe many other things, not because the Bible, but because the church has enjoined it. — Isaac Williams

An actor wants to get up every day and they can't think of anything particularly more fun to do than getting into a made-up situation and living it out as if it's real. — Jeff Goldblum