Able Quotes - Page 61

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

I can't grill vegetables, shellfish or steaks without tongs. Don't bother with those long-handled grilling tongs normally found in the BBQ section of your home store. Get intimate with your grill and opt for the regular stainless steel tongs.

The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

Who doesn't want to be comfortable all day long?

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

In the desert I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions, since everything that was not a necessity was an encumbrance. I had found too, a comradeship inherent in the circumstances, and the belief that tranquility was to be found there.

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can't answer for her.

There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.

No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limits you in some way but I like to be able to pull my hair back in a ponytail and get groceries without anyone noticing.

We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

Even vegetables have feelings in our world.

Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can. when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the colour and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favour of dirt.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

I have to be able to trust you with my life. Do you understand?

We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the slippery slope: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.