Invite Potluck Quotes & Sayings

Let me just say this, and I want to say this to the televison audience: I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service — Richard M. Nixon

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know. — Anthony Burgess

[I] must seek in the stars that which was denied [to me] on earth. — Albert Einstein

ebullition of the sensations. I had long felt — Charlotte Bronte

The problem is this: when we separate Jesus from his ideas for an alternative social structure, we inevitably succumb to the temptation to harness Jesus to our ideas - thus conferring upon our human political ideas an assumed divine endorsement. With little awareness of what we are doing, we find ourselves in collusion with the principalities and powers to keep the world in lockstep with the ancient choreography of violence, war, and death. We do this mostly unconsciously, but we do it. I've done it. And the result is that we reduce Jesus to being the Savior who guarantees our reservation in heaven while using him to endorse our own ideas about how to run the world. This feeds into a nationalized narrative of the gospel and leads to a state-owned Jesus. Thus, our understanding of Christ has mutated from Roman Jesus to Byzantine Jesus to German Jesus to American Jesus, etc. — Brian Zahnd

The Lord of Casterly Rock made such an impressive figure that it was a shock when his destrier dropped a load of dung right at the base of the throne. — George R R Martin

I don't think we should have a dinosaur that poops kids. — Beverly Connor

I now think a little powder and lead is the best food for them, he concluded. 7 — Dee Brown

A farewell to my shadow is not my death; it's my rebirth in darkness. — Munia Khan

I'm so sorry," Gabby whispered. "Don't be, baby. This was way better than what I had planned anyway." He moved a stray curl back behind her ear, "I was so upset last night and knew I just needed some time to think, to make sure that this was the right decision." He leaned down and kissed her head. — J.B. McGee

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. — Bette Midler

The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed. — Hassan Rouhani

We leave this life the same way that we enter it, totally alone, bereft. — Blake Crouch

When you are in love you know no fear or hatred. when you are fearful there is no possibility of love or hatred. And when there is hate, there is only hate. — Christopher Pike

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do. — Betty Ford