Use Quotes - Page 35

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support?

A country without a border is like a person in a house without a front door. Anybody can enter and you cannot ask anybody to leave.

If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected.... Hoarding is idolatry.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

Women today leave the house in animal prints and six inch stilettos, what does that say? I'm going to church? They're saying I want you to hang me by my tits from your ceiling and bite my ass. You know what I mean? That's what it says to me anyway.

If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

Let each of us accept the truth of the following statement and try to make it our most fundamental principle: Christ's teaching will never let us down, while worldly wisdom always will. Christ Himself said that this sort of wisdom was like a house with nothing but sand as its foundation, while His own was like a building with solid rock as its foundation.

What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

A lot of these gadgets and pieces of technology we use become almost like friends to us, and we expect our friends to have voices.

Do not throw in the towel; use it for wiping the sweat off your face.

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.

Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.