Hackbarth Quotes & Sayings

What the teacher does is sweep all of the logic, order and reason onto one side and make that side very strong. — Frederick Lenz

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim. — George Clooney

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself. — Will.i.am

An oath-the strongest of religious ties. — James Madison

Most human beings wish to be happy and healthy. This universal realization is painfully obvious and yet is overlooked due to its simplicity. We all naturally desire to feel free on all levels: mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually. We wish to feel joyful, abundant, serene and blissful. This desire is ultimately grounded in a higher human nature. — Christopher Dines

In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. The world will allow itself to be subdued only by success. It is not ideas or opinions which decide, but deeds. Success alone justifies wrongs done ... With a frankness and off-handedness which no other earthly power could permit itself, history appeals in its own cause to the dictum that the end justifies the means ... The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought that takes success for its standard. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going. — Charles Dickens

To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this. — Mo Yan

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative. — Serge Lang

Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense and glorious buildings were erected in an era of constricted horizons, both in time and in space. — Martin Rees

I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful. — John Boyega

He looked so boring I didn't dare get too close to him for fear he'd snatch part of my brain — Donald Jans

This particular type of road was a motorway. A motorway is the most advanced type of road there is, which as with most forms of human advancement essentially meant accidental death was considerably more probable. — Matt Haig