Thriving Ivory Quotes & Sayings

It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief. — Rodney Stark

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither. — Benjamin Franklin

What?" I said. "It's the smart play." "That's what," she responded. "This is usually the part where you explain how it's strategically necessary for you to go in there alone and naked with nothing but a pair of fingernail clippers." "I don't have to try to impress you anymore," I explained. "We're already having sex. — Elliott James

There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box. — Sunny Leone

In my heart there may be doubt that I deserve the Nobel award over other men of letters whom I hold in respect and reverence, but there is no question of my pleasure and pride in having it for myself. — John Steinbeck

If your parents didn't have any children, there is a good chance that you won't have any. — Clarence Day Jr.

In the distance a wolf howls. Let it come, I think. Beast will most likely simply howl back, and the creature will either turn tail and run or fall into line behind him, like the rest of us have. — R.L. LaFevers

The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not. — Thomas DiLorenzo

I think that's a mistake if [Aaron Rodgers] does not throw at [Richard Sherman]. Now, he doesn't have to make it personal vendetta against him because I'm sure all year, all he's heard is how he did not throw on Richard Sherman. — Reggie Bush

An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that's not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable. — Tobin Bell

I like my hands. Which is lucky as I have to spend all day looking at them on the handlebars. — David Millar

Some people believe that everyone will experience judgment day. But it's my understanding that the Judgment Day or Rapture that I'm going to experience, as a nonbeliever, is not going to be the good part. That's the essential difference between the Singularity and what we're usually told about the fate of our eternal souls. — Ron Currie Jr.

It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture. — Elliott Erwitt

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw. — Meredith Baxter

No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant about policing the public square, not less so ... [Y]ou cannot sustain liberal democracy without cultivating liberal habits of mind among religious believers. That remains true today, both in Baghdad and in Baton Rouge. — Mark Lilla