Use Quotes - Page 151

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

"I'm hoping that the more you see me, the more I'll grow on you." "Like a fungus?

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

I feel comfortable in my skin. ... I used to run around my house naked when I was 13.

We all posses different gifts and abilities. How we use those gifts determines who we are.

Jesus modelled that we don’t need to talk about everything we’ve done. It’s like He’s saying, what if we were just to do awesome, incredible stuff together while we’re here on earth and the fact that only He knew would be enough? If we did, we wouldn’t get confused about who was really making things happen. Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

Clinton left the White House with all the class of an XFL halftime show.

I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.

Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.

There's no such thing as a lost cause.

A bomb is a bomb, what's the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it's about how to use it.

Home staging used to be optional. Today, it's a necessity in selling a house.

[White House is] the finest prison in the world.

A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.

I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.

"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy."

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

This is what makes me happy: Remembering where I put my house keys.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.