Classicist Philadelphia Quotes & Sayings

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin, thing. — Alice Childress

There is no greater example in apologetics than the apostle Paul speaking at Mars Hill. The irony of the talk Paul gave is in the difference in reaction the Easterner has when reading Paul's address to that of a Westerner. The Easterner is thrilled at how the apostle wove the message starting from where the listeners were to bring them to where he was in his thinking. The average Westerner is quick to point out that few of his hearers responded. Such an attitude says volumes about why the church in the West has been so intellectually weak. To those in the West, the bigger the number of respondents, the more replicated the technique. The bigger the statistic, the greater the success. Westerners are enamored by size, largesse, number of hands raised, and so on. When the sun has set on these reports, we seem rather dismayed when statistics show the quality of the life of the believer is no different from that of the unbeliever. — Ravi Zacharias

Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one. — Michael Gove

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder. — Tim Ferriss

Law without penalty is only advise. — Adrian Rogers

To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training. — Pauline Neville-Jones

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so. — Joseph Joubert

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on. — Jerry Only

I'm coming down on the next pitch, Krauthead. — Ty Cobb

Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop. — Norman Mailer

Aren't you sometimes frightened at being planted out here, with nobody to take care of you?'
'There's the tree in the middle,' said the Rose:'what else is it good for?'
'But what could it do, if any danger came?' Alice asked.
'It could bark,' said the Rose. — Lewis Carroll

The sky was a fresh-swept blue, with only a trace of white cloud clinging to the dome of heaven like a thin streak of test paint — Haruki Murakami

When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on. — Tim Conway