Funny Richard Baxter Quotes & Sayings

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him. — C.S. Lewis

If you comprehend, it is not God. — Saint Augustine

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing. — John Hope

We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears. — Jim Valvano

Gravity is the magnetic force holding you on to the planet and somehow you have to deal with it. — Carolyn Nicholls

Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted. — Emma Stone

If you can get your life down to one minute at a time, you don't miss anything. You have total abundance of information and material. — Tracy Morgan

My parents both renounced their material lives and were living as monks at an ashram in L.A. when they met each other. So we were always raised in this environment and when we moved to the ashram in Florida it was just like, "Oh, wow, now all of a sudden there's more people like us," because we were growing up in the middle of Texas with our parents, always being the weirdos. — Taraka Larson

I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent. — Steve Burns

Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse. — Wayne Rogers

You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments! — Niels Bohr

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. — Albert Schweitzer

Nobody walks in here with what they think is a bad idea. — Adam M. Grant

She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse. — George Orwell

John A. Templer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of the definitive (and, it must be said, almost only) scholarly text on the subject, The Staircase: Studies of Hazards, Falls, and Safer Design, suggests that all fall-injury figures are probably severely underestimated anyway. — Bill Bryson