Jecklin Schiers Quotes & Sayings

Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own. — John Foxe

Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: 'You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer.' Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, 'It's five o'clock in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time.' — Robin Williams

Hillary Clinton is about 'we.' Donald Trump is about 'me.' — Thomas Perez

The last great Englishman is low. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Reverend Sydney Smith, though a man of the cloth, caught the spirit of the age by declining to say grace. 'With the ravenous orgasm upon you, it seems impertinent to interpose a religious sentiment,' he explained. 'It is a confusion of purpose to mutter out praises from a mouth that waters. — Bill Bryson

Taking Mum's hand, I whispered Are we really safe, here? — Alwyn Evans

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed. — Wallis Simpson

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again. — Maya Angelou

It is an established fact that alcoholism, cocainism, and morphinism are deadly enemies of life, of health, and of the capacity for work and enjoyment ... But this is far from demonstrating that the authorities must interpose to suppress these vices by commercial prohibitions ... More harmful still than all these pleasures, many will say, is the reading of evil literature. — Ludwig Von Mises

If the present economic structure can change only by collapsing, then it had better collapse as soon as possible. — Germaine Greer

To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son - how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, "Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God's mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what he says. — C.S. Lewis

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. — Leonard Bernstein