Pensilvania Quotes & Sayings

Considering these limitations, it is quite astonishing how irreligious the Founders actually were. You might not easily guess, for example, who was the author of the following words: Oh! Lord! Do you think that a Protestant Popedom is annihilated in America? Do you recollect, or have you ever attended to the ecclesiastical Strifes in Maryland Pensilvania [sic], New York, and every part of New England? What a mercy it is that these People cannot whip and crop, and pillory and roast, as yet in the U.S.! If they could they would ... . There is a germ of religion in human nature so strong that whenever an order of men can persuade the people by flattery or terror that they have salvation at their disposal, there can be no end to fraud, violence, or usurpation. That was John Adams, in relatively mild form. — Christopher Hitchens

There are movies that I've made where I thought I was going to be good, but when it was cut it together it wasn't. And there are a lot of movies that, for one reason or another, just don't become popular. So to me it's always been a little bit of a roll of the dice. That's the way it goes. — Christopher Walken

I stopped focusing on people being different, and I started treating everyone the same way. — Ivan Glasenberg

How much I hate the people's world, — Timothy Treadwell

Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else. — Brennan Manning

Every day we hear about a new invention here and there and they are reducing considerably their consumption of oil. But the day they use hydrogen for transportation, this is the day that oil disappears. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani

I understand well the peculiar guilt of tragedy's survivors. — Kate Morton

There are seminars that teach us how to cope with depression, sickness and relationship break down. But God wants us to overcome. — Joseph Prince