Cropt Quotes & Sayings

He who harbors hatred and bitterness injures himself far more than the one towards whom he manifests these evil propensities. — David O. McKay

Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns — E.C. Riegel

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot. — Francis Bacon

A memory, pressed into my heart like a leaf in a book. — Jenny Han

That person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One. — Helene Deutsch

Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of the nature of an alibi that is here attempted to be proved, namely, the absence of a dead body by supernatural means,) and had they given their evidence in the same contradictory manner as it is here given, they would have been in danger of having their ears cropt for perjury, and would have justly deserved it. Yet this is the evidence, and these are the books, that have been imposed upon the world as being given by divine inspiration, and as the unchangeable word of God. — Thomas Paine

However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine. — Richard O'Brien

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much. — Richard Petty

She was too well-trained to panic. — Steve Sheinkin

Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears. — Benjamin Franklin

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty. — Ben Carson

A man and wife should see the best in each other, should work together, should enjoy each other. — Gena Showalter

Dr. Ockenga had been a student of Machen's at Princeton University and followed him out. But then Ockenga, like Dad, became a critic of the fundamentalist's endless civil wars and started looking for a new way to present a friendlier evangelical faith (and face). He helped invent a movement called the New Evangelicals. Their mascot was Billy Graham. Other figures like Carl Henry, founder of Christianity Today magazine (and a man who became bitterly jealous of my father in later years), criticized fundamentalism's failure to address the world's intellectual and social needs. A movement was born - modern evangelicalism, a fundamentalism-lite where everyone could more or less do their own theological thing, as long as they "named the name of Christ" and paid lip service to the "inerrancy" of the Bible. On — Frank Schaeffer