Heddy Lamar Quotes & Sayings

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen.
(Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521) — Martin Luther

Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values. — William J.H. Boetcker

Charity, as a supplement to justice, should be applauded. But charity as a substitute for justice is neither charity nor justice. It is cruelty. The — Sarah Kendzior

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.' — Neale Donald Walsch

Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind? — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. — Elie Wiesel

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year. — Mike McGavick

The fittest survive. What is meant by the fittest? Not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'Fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' Darwinism: That survivors survive. — Charles Fort

I will unbolt to you — William Shakespeare

All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be replaced by something more responsive, more just, and more democratic. Marx said this, and so did Jefferson. It is a revolutionary doctrine, and very much an American one. — Michael Parenti

Anger is seldom a useful emotion, and the more self-righteous the anger, the less useful it is. — James P. Blaylock