Mcgerrigle Mountains Quotes & Sayings

But she drew the line at television. It took no effort to watch - it was infinitely more beneficial to the soul, and to the intelligence, to read or to listen - and what she imagined there was to watch on TV appalled her; she had, of course, only read about it. — John Irving

If Jesus loves the church, you and I should, too. We can't use the excuse that the church has messed up too many times or that we're disillusioned. Jesus is the only person who has the right to disown and give up on the church. But He never has. And He never will. — Joshua Harris

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith. — Van Cliburn

Actuality is a running impoverishment of possibility. — John Updike

Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart. — Katherine Applegate

From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms. — Robert Koch

If you're gonna be free, you gotta stop caring what everyone thinks. — Joyce Meyer

Even in its canonical form a biblical document may be better understood if account be taken of successive stages in its composition. There — F.F. Bruce

Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code ... he turned himself in. — Rita Rudner

My life so far has been a long series of things I wasn't ready for. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Those who say that the West and Islam are eternally irreconcilable have more in common with the Islam extremists than they might like to think, for it's the very same argument of course advanced by Al-Qaida. And they do have it wrong. We need to work with mainstream Islam. — Pauline Neville-Jones

If we had any leisure we would here digress a little on that ingratitude which so many writers have observed to spring up in the people in all free governments towards their great men; who, while they have been consulting the good of the public, by raising their own greatness, in which the whole body (as the kingdom of France thinks itself in the glory of their grand monarch) was so deeply concerned, have been sometimes sacrificed by those very people for whose glory the said great men were so industriously at work: and this from a foolish zeal for a certain ridiculous imaginary thing called liberty, to which great men are observed to have a great animosity. — Henry Fielding