Ziegers Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important. — C.S. Lewis

I'll have you know there is adventure and then there is crime. And crime, such as you are suggesting, my pretty little filching mort, will see you standing in the Old Bailey being consigned to a hanging." "Then I daresay it would be best if we weren't caught." "Not caught!" He shook his head. "At least now I know where you live." "However do you know that?" "Because I'm quite certain the place you escaped from earlier was Bedlam." "Bedlam, indeed," she sniffed. "Whyever would you want to break into someone's house?" She shrugged. "I just merely want to try. It can't be that difficult. Thieves do it all the time." "And are hung all the time. — Elizabeth Boyle

Truth is a fact we fall in love with — Anonymous

The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining. — Martha Stewart

But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives. — J.C. Ryle

Regulation is useful and proper, when aimed at the prevention of fraud or contrivance, manifestly injurious to other kinds of production, or to the public safety, and not at prescribing the nature of the products and the methods of fabrication. — Jean-Baptiste Say

The Communists , following Hegel , speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion. — Simone De Beauvoir

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. — Noah Webster

A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got. — Zora Neale Hurston