Virgil Oldman Quotes & Sayings

The liar has a bad memory. — Idries Shah

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead. — Sophocles

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought. — Anselm Of Canterbury

To worship God 'in spirit and in truth' is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13). Christian worship is new covenant worship; it is gospel-inspired worship; it is Christ-centered worship; it is cross-focused worship. — D. A. Carson

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars. — Mitch Daniels

My teeth clench listening to him talk about her like that, like she's a means to an end. I consider socking him in the balls and then remember he doesn't have any. — Rachel A. Marks

THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets. — Edmond Jabes

Nobody wants zealotry in a police force, you know? You do want to know that the guy who's got that badge, is confident enough to judge a certain level of benign corruption. Like a man steals some food to feed his starving children. — Russell Crowe

Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us ... The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I. — Novalis

Jesus told His disciples that the "world," meaning the world system, the political and social order organized apart from God, will despise Christians. — Billy Graham

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice. — Voltaire

He was doing what a man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story. — Mitch Albom

It's so funny because I haven't set foot in a grocery store in years, you know. And that's so embarrassing ... I kept going, 'What's this?' "First of all I had the cart and I was riding down the aisles standing on it. And there's nobody there but us. And we got in the checkout. And I'm seeing this square thing, and I'm like, "What's this you guys?" And Missy just looked at me. And they said, "That's so you can use your credit card." And I said, "You can use your credit cards in grocery stores now? — Janet Jackson

Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four." — Georg C. Lichtenberg