Chrift Quotes & Sayings

As an artist, I've been very fortunate. — Enrique Iglesias

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk. — Allan Bloom

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper. — Thomas Carlyle

Each of us must decide: Am I a fun-loving Tigger or am I a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. — Randy Pausch

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head. — Tom Stoppard

So often the contemporary church is a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. So often it is an archdefender of the status quo. Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's silent - and often even vocal - sanction of things as they are. But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust. — Martin Luther King Jr.

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating. — Robert Fisk

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me. — Ian Fleming

It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight. — John Hodgman

We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church. — Edwin Percy Whipple

My Aunt Ida at age eighty-three: 'Yeah,' she said, 'I'll be dead pretty soon. And frankly, I don't give a damn.' — Edward Abbey

The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it. — Joey Ramone

I've been with the paper for almost 30 years. — Robert Scheer