Eyeone Lexington Quotes & Sayings

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter — Anton Chekhov

My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry. — Clayton Cramer

The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them. — Deborah Moggach

But there is nothing to prevent a layman from taking just one Psalm a day, for instance in his night prayers, and reciting it thoughtfully, pausing to meditate on the lines which have the deepest meaning for him. — Thomas Merton

Dead! He had known. Of course he had known. — Alan McCluskey

The profound and primal cause of obesity will one day be recognized to be the use of cereal and starch foods. — Emmet Densmore

When Michelle and I decided that I would run for President, it was because of a shared belief in the power of community and connection, a commitment to the idea that we are our brothers' keepers. — Barack Obama

Rarely, I discovered, does a minister have the opportunity to get as close to his congregation as can a chaplain to men at war. Seemingly unimportant problems, which in normal life would never even come to the clergyman's attention, can seriously affect the soldiers' morale. For men whose every living moment is a preparation for battle, a preparation perhaps for death, the chaplain can become a link to family and home. But the chaplain cannot become that important link to family and home by moving among the men with folded hands and bowed head quoting Scriptures at the drop of a hat. He must share with the men their day-today experiences and enter into them fully. Before he can gain the soldiers' confidence in him as a chaplain, he must gain their confidence and respect in him as a man. Visiting the men in their quarters below deck became one of my regular duties. Down below in the hold of the ship was my 'pastorate,' and almost daily I spent as much time there as possible. — Chaplain William C. Taggart