Hypocritically Pious Or Devout Quotes & Sayings

President Bush threw out the first pitch Monday at Cincinnati's great American ball park. 18 Iraqis were killed. — Amy Poehler

The fact that you live in a broken-down house in the midst of restoration makes everything more difficult. It removes the ease and simplicity of life. It requires you to be more thoughtful, more careful. It requires you to listen and see well. It requires you to look out for difficulty and to be aware of danger. It requires you to contemplate and plan. It requires you to do what you don;t really want to do and to accept what you find difficult to accept. You want to simply coast, but you can't. Things are broken and they need to be fixed. There is work to do. — Paul David Tripp

We're being attacked for what we do in the Islamic world, not for who we are or what we believe in or how we live. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

I noticed - and this is one of the people don't understand of Tony [Abbot] - he grew. To me he grew as opposition leader. He come in - he wasn't really good at the beginning when he was opposition leader. He won the confidence of the Australian people and got the job as Prime Minister. He grew in Indigenous affairs. To me, we just totally disagreed in it, but now we're very much one on one on it. — Warren Mundine

The supposed reality of misfiring synapses, chemical imbalances, frontal lobe anomalies and the like - did not sway her desire for escape into an alternate universe - where she could discover fascinating things about her inner world - or where she could hide from the real world. — Kelly Proudfoot

We don't become saints by our actions. We are made saints by the immediate supernatural action of the Holy Spirit alone who works this change deep within our inner being so that we do, in fact, become new creations in Christ (see 2 Corinthians 5:17). — Jerry Bridges

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius

Every individual has some qualities that endear him to some other. And per contra, I doubt if there is any class which is not detestable to some other class. Artists, police, the clergy, "reds," foxhunters, Freemasons, Jews, "heaven-born," women's clubwomen (especially in U.S.A.), "Methodys," golfers, dog-lovers; you can't find one body without its "natural" enemies. It's right, what's worse; every class, as a class, is almost sure to have more defects than qualities. As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow. — Aleister Crowley

If from morning to night we just took care of one thing after another, thoroughly and completely and without accompanying thoughts, such as "I'm a good person for doing this" or "Isn't it wonderful, that I can take care of everything?," then that would be sufficient. — Charlotte Joko Beck

There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me. — Uday Kotak

To some people you may give not your hand, but only a slap with a paw: and I would at your paw might also have claws. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One of the coolest things Twickenham Fest does is to commission new works. — Susanna Phillips

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. — Noah Webster

Religious belief does not do away with either natural or human law from which sovereignty is derived. — Timothy Brook

Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other. — Emile M. Cioran