Kipple File Quotes & Sayings

I like the plain, old-fashioned churches, built for use, not show, where people met for hearty praying and preaching, and where everybody made their own music instead of listening to opera singers, as we do now. I don't care if the old churches were bare and cold, and the seats hard, there was real piety in them, and the sincerity of it was felt in the lives of the people. I don't want a religion that I put away with my Sunday clothes, and don't take out till the day comes round again; I want something to see and feel and live by day-by-day, — Louisa May Alcott

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope. — Oscar Wilde

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless. — Saki

You can tell everybody that Eddie Robinson's out looking for a job right now, and believe me, he's a great kid. He's happy and he's healthy. All he needs is a couple of weeks to regain game fitness. Put him on the court and when the game counts ... Eddie Robinson is about one word: winning and losing. He's a great athlete, and I love him to death. — Paul Collier

The question is, how long does Mr. Spinny have to live? And what does that tell us? — Neal Stephenson

Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more. — Mark Twain

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons. — Mat McNerney

As spirits we have always existed in a generalized form, since we are all part of the universe. As individual spirits, we have existed for a timeless time. — Frederick Lenz

If we don't trust one another, then we aren't going to engage in open, constructive, ideological conflict. — Patrick Lencioni

Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously. — Rajneesh

It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse. — Thomas B. Macaulay

The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it. — Joey Ramone

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. — John Dewey

Be strong, believe in who you are;
be strong, believe in what you feel. — Melissa Etheridge