Thomas Paine Common Sense Enlightenment Quotes & Sayings

For God's sake *what*, sir? How can God's sake and your sake, I pray you, be the same?"
~Clarissa Harlowe~ — Samuel Richardson

Totally present in this moment for you. — Truth Devour

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift. — Denzel Washington

We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture. — Dallas Willard

You guys are seriously missing out unless you all start listening to girls. — Kathleen Hanna

It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God. — John Ruskin

At breakfast that morning I had been struck by the lively distance of its colours. But that was no longer the point. I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence. — Aldous Huxley

In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching. — Willa Cather

Min hadn't just played the "friend" card - she'd dressed it up in all kinds of cool Batman imagery. Gunnar and I were powerless to resist. — Brent Hartinger

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other, — Henry Jenkins

Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching all the girls go by. — Dean Martin

I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different. — Jeff Daniels

It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans ... It is subversive for commissions like this to spread hysteria and intimidation throughout the land that Americans are afraid to sign petitions, afraid to read progressive magazines, afraid to make out checks for liberal causes, afraid to join organizations, afraid to speak their mind on public issues. Americans dare not be free citizens! This is the destruction of democracy. — Florence Luscomb