Chicest Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns in to universal, rather than religion-specific, values ... it requires that their proposals be subject to argument and amenable to reason.
Now I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all. — Barack Obama

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer. — Sarah Dessen

The social world being the realm of nullity, there exist between the merits of women in society only insignificant degrees, — Marcel Proust

I look at failure as the fertilizer to success. — Thomas Jones

While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.' — Nancy Pelosi

...if we apply to the New Testament, as we should, the same sort of criteria as we should apply to other ancient writings containing historical material, we can no more reject Jesus' existence than we can reject the existence of a mass of pagan personages whose reality as historical figures is never questioned. — Michael Grant

If you weren't on Chris Economaki's radar screen, you probably weren't on anybody's. — Mario Andretti

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway. — Mae West

Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't. — Antonio Machado

Once I saw a prizefighter boxing a yokel. The fighter was swift and
amazingly scientific. His body was one violent flow of rapid rhythmic action.
He hit the yokel a hundred times while the yokel held up his arms in
stunned surprise. But suddenly the yokel, rolling about in the gale of boxing
gloves, struck one blow and knocked science, speed and footwork as cold as a
Well-digger's posterior. The smart money hit the canvas. The long shot got the
nod. The yokel had simply stepped inside of his opponent's sense of time. — Ralph Ellison