Combustication Full Quotes & Sayings

People are inevitably disappointed, because no one's as good as Bill Clinton's first impression. Or, he's done things. He's disappointed people in a variety of ways. And so then, the fall is hard. — Dee Dee Myers

Not crazy are those souls who marvel at God's creation, but the ones who ridicule them. — George Sorbane

One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room. — P.G. Wodehouse

I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god. — David Hume

Virtue debases itself in justifying itself. — Voltaire

The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than the foregoing, is a direct consequence of the premises, which you have stated. — Christopher Hitchens

Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while! — Rudolph A. Marcus

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression? — George Eliot

Later on in life you will learn that writers are merely open, helpless texts with no real understanding of what they have written and therefore must half-believe anything and everything that is said of them. — Lorrie Moore

If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good
deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance. — Ibn Rajab

At first, yes. But a long intimacy frees you of that illusion, and it also acquaints you with their scantiness of character. The effect they have produced on you is only their bluff. There is not such a thing as too much beauty. — Rex Stout

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions. — P. J. O'Rourke

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time. — Neal A. Maxwell

I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them. — Kesha