Funny Elizabeth Blackwell Quotes & Sayings

What kind of person actually sits down and decides that no one should be allowed to end a sentence with a preposition? Not even decide what ideas you should or shouldn't talk about, but to actually make rules about what order to put your words in ... It's such an amazing kind of petty tyranny. — Jonathan Blum Kate Orman

It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement. — Angela Davis

In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in. — Bjork

In what appears to have been an unplanned quip, Wilberforce asked Huxley if he thought he was descended from an ape on his father's or mother's side. Huxley retorted that he would rather have simian relatives than claim kinship with a man who used his charisma and authority to quash free debate. — Jonathan Clements

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic. — Pat Buckley

There are no new sins - only new sinners. There are no new crimes - only new criminals, No new evils - only new evildoers. No new pleasures - only new pleasure seekers. We must distinguish between wholesome, God-ordained pleasure and sinful, worldly pleasure. — Billy Graham

No truth can be determined that concerns the future. — C.W. Gortner

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time. — Dean Kamen

We can accomplish a lot with prayer and fasting. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get. — Bill Bryson

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes. — Patricia Clarkson