Schiessl Pub Quotes & Sayings

How many times do we hear: 'Come on, you Christians, be a little bit more normal, like other people, be reasonable!' This is real snake charmer's talk: 'Come on, just be like this, okay? A little bit more normal, don't be so rigid ... ' But behind it is this: 'Don't come here with your stories, that God became man!' The Incarnation of the Word, that is the scandal behind all of this! We can do all the social work we want, and they will say: 'How great the Church is, it does such good social work. But if we say that we are doing it because those people are the flesh of Christ, then comes the scandal. And that is the truth, that is the revelation of Jesus: that presence of Jesus incarnate. — Pope Francis

If I can't be daring in my work or the way I live my life, then I don't really see the point of being on this planet. — Madonna Ciccone

It is difficult to single out one sport over another, but if I have to name one in my separation suit, it will undoubtedly be football. — Erma Bombeck

I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message. — Les Paul

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community. — Marco Rubio

He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. — Herbert Kalmus

When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time. — Dennis Quaid

When Silent Cal Coolidge noted that You don't have to explain something you haven't said, — Robert A. Caro

Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work. — Jorie Graham

If I really believed in Friedman's economic theory, then I'd be quite satisfied to spend the rest of my life with a garden hose shoved down my throat, being filled with custard by representatives of the people of China. — Nigel Lawson

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. — Will Durant

'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western. — Ridley Scott

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way. — K.J. Parker

I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well. — Rob Brezsny

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump. — Christopher Morley