Quotes and Sayings about Christ
"I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Christianity, Hollywood)
"I remember thinking, That's what I need - and that hope was in Jesus Christ."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Hope, Christ, Thinking)
"I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them."
- Willie Aames
(Related: People, Christ, Hurt, Kids, Will)
"I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ."
- Willie Aames
(Related: Strength, Christ, Kids, Want)
"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."
- Edward Abbey
(Related: Missionaries)
"Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history."
- Ralph Abernathy
(Related: Change, History)
"You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last."
- Ralph Abernathy
(Related: Men, Time, Christ, May, Will, Words)
"I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me."
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Christian, Church, Bible, Beliefs)
"The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'"
- Jensen Ackles
(Related: Christmas, Thinking)
"Christmas is over and Business is Business."
- Franklin P. Adams
(Related: Business, Christmas)
"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."
- John Quincy Adams
(Related: Government, Christianity, American, Revolution, Glory, Principles)
"Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience."
- Will Adams
(Related: Wife, Heart, Being, Children, Christ, Conscience, Grief, Name, Poor)
"The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Love, God, Belief, Christian, World)
"One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian."
- Mortimer Adler
(Related: Faith, Christian, First, Problems, states, United)
"We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible."
- Peter Agre
(Related: Dad, Bible, Christmas)
"My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Dreams, Divorce, School)
"Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Boyfriend, Career, Now, Pretty, Right)
"What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be."
- Christina Aguilera
"The roughest road often leads to the top."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Road)
"I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Money, God, People, Company, Hearing, Religious, Spiritual)
"It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Work, Dream, Friends, Hard work, Will)
"Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Music, Favorite)
"Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Business, America, Job)
"I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Act, Want)
"It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: People, Being, Fans)
"I'm not just another bimbo."
- Christina Aguilera
"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Being, Film)
"Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: People, Act, Want)
"I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: School)
"I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Girls, School, Talk)
"I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Art, History, Love, Movies, Friends, Museums, Reading, Relaxation, Writing)
"I think everybody should have a great Wonderbra. There's so many ways to enhance them, everybody does it."
- Christina Aguilera
"I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Fashion, Risk)
"I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Nature, Creativity)
"I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures."
- Christina Aguilera
(Related: Deep, Ocean)
"If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message."
- Moustapha Akkad
(Related: War, Christianity, Blame, Religious, Terror)
"But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: God, Christ, May, Now, Rebellion, Repentance, Will)
"Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: Heart, Christ)
"We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe."
- Christopher Alexander
(Related: Harmony)
"Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design."
- Christopher Alexander
(Related: Design, Environmental, Complexity, Problems)
"The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling."
- Christopher Alexander
(Related: Life, Nature, Feeling)
"Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts."
- Christopher Alexander
(Related: Work, People, Help, Relationships)
"The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road."
- Charles L. Allen
(Related: Christian, Right, Road)
"If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls."
- Roland Allen
(Related: Religion, Morality, Christ, Consideration, Duty, Preaching)
"Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit."
- Roland Allen
(Related: Christ, Nations, Spirit, World)
"Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact."
- Roland Allen
(Related: Men, Church, Christ, Contradiction, Fact, Spirit, Spiritual, Theory)
"I belong to a church and I try to do my Christian duty, so I am against alcohol... But we need the tax money."
- Walter Allen
(Related: Money, Christian, Church, Alcohol, Duty, Tax)
"Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: News, Profit, Running)
"What we do and say and show really matters."
- Christiane Amanpour
"U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Acquaintance, Now, Order, Soldiers, Will)
"In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Children)
"In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Society, Fact, Play, Russia, states)
"In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Democracy, Press, Reform)
"Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Children, Conviction, Passion)
"Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league."
- Christiane Amanpour
"'m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Being, Day, Honor, News, Tradition)
"If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Responsibility)
"Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Money, Technology, Time, Talent, People)
"They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Force, Journalism)
"We do it because we're committed, because we're believers."
- Christiane Amanpour
"We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: American, News)
"We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Leadership, Power, Press)
"We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Fear)
"We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Mistake, Revolution, World)
"For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?"
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Country, Crime, Leading, Murder)
"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Journalism, Television, World)
"If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?"
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Respect)
"And I really believe good journalism is good business."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Business, Journalism)
"And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story."
- Christiane Amanpour
"Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: People, Will)
"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Years)
"But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Country, Self, states, United, World)
"Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Trust, People, Profession, states, United)
"I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: End, Events, Living)
"I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: War, Past, Years, Zone)
"I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Family, Love, Admiration, Company, Past, Respect, Years)
"I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: War, Passion, Planning, Road)
"I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Tea)
"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: People, American, Respect)
"I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Thought, People)
"I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Experience, Job, Light, Network)
"Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God."
- William Ames
(Related: God, Blessings, Christ, Participation)
"My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident."
- Hans Christian Andersen
(Related: Life)
"Travelling expands the mind rarely."
- Hans Christian Andersen
(Related: Mind)
"Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps."
- Hans Christian Andersen
(Related: Time, People, Children, Will)
"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."
- Hans Christian Andersen
(Related: Life)
"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
(Related: Freedom, Living)
"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers."
- Hans Christian Andersen
(Related: Life, God, Man)
"Where words fail, music speaks."
- Hans Christian Andersen
(Related: Music, Words)
"Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg."
- Hans Christian Anderson
(Related: Being)
"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Anderson
(Related: Freedom, Living)
"If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim."
- Ian Anderson
(Related: Christ, Today)
"Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified."
- Sherwood Anderson
(Related: Christ, World)
"He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always."
- Fra Angelico
(Related: Work, Christ)
"You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things."
- Sharron Angle
(Related: Faith, God, Purpose, Christian)
"Where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees."
- Christopher Anstey
(Related: Years)
"I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it."
- Christina Applegate
(Related: Family, Love, Music, Being, Christmas, Snow)
"I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again."
- Christina Applegate
(Related: People)
"I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important."
- Christina Applegate
(Related: Manager, Mother, Friends, Relationships)
"I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had."
- Christina Applegate
(Related: Now, Training, Value)
"The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?"
- Christina Applegate
(Related: Time, Money, People, Animals, Holidays, Killing, Options, Want)
"I got off on the fact that a guy would be so into me from the get-go without really knowing me. That's probably why I had so many bad relationships."
- Christina Applegate
(Related: Fact, Relationships)
"If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way."
- Thomas Aquinas
(Related: Christ)
"It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero."
- Corazon Aquino
(Related: Life, Christ, Man, Pity, Self, Suffering, Woman)
"With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity."
- Francis Arinze
(Related: God, Soul, Christianity, Church, Difference, Errors, Humanity, Spiritual)
"Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death."
- Karen Armstrong
(Related: Death, Religion, Success, Christianity, Islam, Dying, Man)
"Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion."
- Karen Armstrong
(Related: Religion, Society, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Liberal)
"Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God."
- Johann Arndt
(Related: God, Christ, Man, Poor, Righteousness)
"It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities."
- Johann Arndt
(Related: Christian, Blessings, Duty, Lust, World)
"In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue."
- Johann Arndt
(Related: Death, Virtue, Christian, Exercise, Man, Sin, Temptations, World)
"My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make."
- Thomas Arnold
(Related: Men, Hope, Christian, Boys, Will)
"My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that."
- Gemma Arterton
(Related: Money, Mother, Attitude, Christmas, Fact, Months, Nothing)
"We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works."
- Francis Asbury
(Related: Work, Christ)
"What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it."
- Margot Asquith
(Related: America, Columbus, Pity)
"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."
- Francis of Assisi
(Related: Christ, Gifts, Grace, Overcoming, Self)
"Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Religion, Christian, Rebellion)
"Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?"
- Christopher Atkins
"They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Nothing)
"You know, I never expected to enter the movie business."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Business)
"The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!"
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Feeling, Trees)
"Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas."
- Christopher Atkins
"Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Saying, Want)
"We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff."
- Christopher Atkins
"There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing."
- Christopher Atkins
"I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Sports, Medicine)
"I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself."
- Christopher Atkins
"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Hollywood, Press)
"Everybody wants to be like everybody else."
- Christopher Atkins
"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Hollywood)
"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Sense)
"Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Water)
"As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Change, Want)
"I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Coaching)
"I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Beer, Grace)
"I think the United States is way behind the times."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: states, United)
"I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism."
- Christopher Atkins
"I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Direction, Fate)
"I'm a very big believer in fate."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Fate)
"One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Favorite, First, Kissing)
"Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Clothes, Months, Running)
"Larry Hagman was a huge star, and he was carrying my stuff for me."
- Christopher Atkins
"It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Nudity, states, United)
"I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me."
- Christopher Atkins
"I'm really a romantic at heart."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Heart, Romantic)
"I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Thought)
"Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity."
- Christian Audigier
(Related: Advertising, Celebrity, Fashion, Now, World)
"Everyone drinks more during a recession; they want to forget."
- Christian Audigier
(Related: Drinks, Forget, Want)
"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."
- Irving Babbitt
(Related: Power, Knowledge, Christianity, Lust)
"In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul."
- Edward Bach
(Related: Soul, Civilization, Christ, Example, Perfection, Personality)
"In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea."
- Richard Bach
(Related: Idea, Christmas, states, United)
"You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar."
- Sebastian Bach
(Related: Christ)
"In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this."
- Jim Bakker
(Related: Christ, Judgment)
"You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian."
- Tammy Faye Bakker
(Related: Christian)
"Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being."
- Mikhail Bakunin
(Related: Life, Being, Christ, Delight, Mankind, Satisfaction, Self)
"I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching."
- Roger Nash Baldwin
(Related: Life, Christian, Contradiction, Freedom, Ideals, Liberty, Teaching)
"I'm a Jewish born-again Christian."
- Stephen Baldwin
(Related: Christian)
"What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself."
- Stephen Baldwin
(Related: Christianity, Needs)
"You gotta love these Christians, they're humble people."
- Stephen Baldwin
(Related: Love, People)
"Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set."
- Christian Bale
(Related: People, Acting, Environment, Nothing)
"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."
- Christian Bale
(Related: People, Acting, Empathy)
"The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Decision, Decisions)
"Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Actors)
"No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?"
- Christian Bale
(Related: Challenge, Day, Disappointment)
"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message."
- Christian Bale
(Related: People, Character, Hope, Difference, Ethics, Film, Obsession, Saying, Will)
"It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Actors, Fools)
"There have been many times when you spend a number of months and the finished product is not what you wanted to see. And 'Batman Begins' was what I wanted to see."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Months)
"It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me."
- Christian Bale
"There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Life, Movies, People, Acting, Circumstances, Fantasy)
"It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Waiting)
"In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Movies, Doubt, Interest, Romantic)
"In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Love, Life, Wife, Belief)
"If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Life)
"I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Life, Want)
"I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous."
- Christian Bale
(Related: English, Famous, World)
"The interesting thing about a movie is the movie."
- Christian Bale
"We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Laws, Man)
"What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Dress, Hell, Man)
"When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things."
- Christian Bale
(Related: People, Character, Film)
"You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Life, Actor, Job, World)
"So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Vision, Actor, Help, Will)
"I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway."
- Christian Bale
"I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Life, People, Attitude, End, Living, Theory)
"An actor should never be larger than the film he's in."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Actor, Film)
"I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Past, Thinking, Want, Years)
"I never want to turn something down because I'm afraid to do it, because of some idea of image or whatever. That was never anything I set out to do. In fact, the opposite, I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make."
- Christian Bale
(Related: People, Idea, Fact, Want)
"I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Trying, Woman, World)
"I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Sound, Writer)
"I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Want)
"I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Idea, First)
"I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting audited and I'm on the street and I desperately need some dough and that's the only thing that I'm getting."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Romantic, Will)
"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"
- Christian Bale
(Related: Movies, Idea, Character, Actor, Magic)
"All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Time, Giving, Obligation, Will)
"I have a fear of being boring."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Fear, Being)
"I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am."
- Christian Bale
"I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Life, Answers, Play)
"Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Imagination)
"But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Character, Embarrassment)
"But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did actually go from 121 right back up to 180, which is way too fast obviously. And that resulted in some doctors visits to get things sorted out."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Time, Doctors, Mind, Right)
"'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Time, English, Film, Months)
"And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them."
- Christian Bale
(Related: Love, Movies, Being, Entertainment)
"A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?"
- Christian Bale
(Related: People, Desire, Responsibility, Trying, Want)
"Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are."
- Jan Peter Balkenende
(Related: Society, Ideas, Christianity, Humanism, Judaism, Religious, Traditions)
"St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: God, Man, Philosophy)
"The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Related: Love, God, Christian, Trinity, Unity)
"You can only do the work to the very best of your ability."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Work, Ability)
"Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Intelligence, Work, Film, Humanity, Want)
"It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Life, Time)
"It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Success, People)
"Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Actor)
"Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic."
- Christine Baranski
"Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Career, Friends, Television)
"Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?"
- Christine Baranski
"The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Time, Negative, Energy, Waste)
"The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Sound)
"Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Character)
"It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Television, Theater)
"You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Actor)
"I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Mom, Wife)
"You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost."
- Christine Baranski
"You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Choice, Television)
"Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?"
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Job, Sleep)
"I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship."
- Christine Baranski
"Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Act, Acting, Error)
"Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera."
- Christine Baranski
"Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Mother, Children, Effect, Losing)
"I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Time, Clothes, Drinking)
"If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Movies, People, Hollywood, Privilege, Will, World)
"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Film)
"It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Comedy, Energy, Focus)
"I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another."
- Christine Baranski
"I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Eyes, Violence)
"I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: People)
"I wanted to show people I can do things other than the sophisticated bitch."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: People)
"I wish I didn't have to live up to anything."
- Christine Baranski
"I'd much rather be famous for being a fabulous bitch than being, She does that nice wife really well."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Wife, Being, Famous)
"I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Culture)
"In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Pretty)
"I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in."
- Christine Baranski
(Related: Women, Family, God, Trying, Want)
"Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit."
- Robert Barclay
(Related: Heart, Christ, Justification, Righteousness, Spirit)
"For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him."
- William Barclay
(Related: Christian, Heaven, Will)
"If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach."
- William Barclay
(Related: Certainty, Christ, Conviction, Man)
"Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross."
- William Barclay
(Related: Love, Sacrifice, Christ, Responsibility)
"I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it."
- Christiaan Barnard
(Related: Medical, Life)
"The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped."
- Christiaan Barnard
(Related: Life, Goal, Suffering, Treatment)
"Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is."
- Christiaan Barnard
(Related: Suffering)
"On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned."
- Christiaan Barnard
(Related: World)
"If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor."
- Christiaan Barnard
(Related: Work, Poor)
"It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms."
- Christiaan Barnard
(Related: Heart)
"It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God."
- Albert Barnes
(Related: God, Truth, Heart, Christian, Bible, Learning)
"I am a makeup junkie... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good."
- Julia Barr
(Related: Christian, Makeup)
"It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins."
- Karl Barth
(Related: Forgiveness, Christian)
"In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians."
- Karl Barth
(Related: Church, Christ)
"Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree."
- Karl Barth
(Related: God, Guests, Promise, Wood)
"Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business."
- Bruce Barton
(Related: Business, Life, Thought, Christ, Day, Today)
"Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it."
- Jason Bateman
(Related: Christian, Swearing)
"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."
- Kathleen Battle
(Related: Artists)
"But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc."
- Bruno Bauer
(Related: Art, Science, God, Christianity, Children, Contrast, Freedom)
"Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness."
- Bruno Bauer
(Related: Progress, Christianity, Alienation, Self)
"Of a very religious linebacker: He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way."
- Sammy Baugh
(Related: People, Christian, Hell, Religious)
"The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it."
- Ferdinand Christian Baur
(Related: Time, Idea, Consciousness, Literary)
"Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb."
- Ferdinand Christian Baur
(Related: History, Dumb, Philosophy)
"It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles."
- Ferdinand Christian Baur
(Related: Attention, First, Letters, Study)
"It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity."
- Ferdinand Christian Baur
(Related: Time, Ideas, Circumstances, Leading, Literary, Motives, Writer)
"Some will have to cease thinking of the Church as a memorial association for a deceased clergyman called Christ."
- Stephen Bayne
(Related: Church, Christ, Thinking, Will)
"Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization."
- August Bebel
(Related: Civilization, Christianity, Enemy, Liberty)
"Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown."
- Thomas Becket
(Related: Faith, Truth, Christ, Effort, Saints, Storms)
"A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Purpose, Christian, Man, Nothing, School)
"The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Education, Church, School)
"If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere."
- Henry Ward Beecher
(Related: Christian, Man)
"It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews."
- Monica Bellucci
(Related: Christ)
"Christ, seven years of college, down the drain."
- John Belushi
(Related: Christ, College, Years)
"And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died."
- Julien Benda
(Related: History, Christ, Smile, Will)
"The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ."
- Pope Benedict XVI
(Related: Men, Women, Christ, Light, World)
"Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place."
- Pope Benedict XVI
(Related: God, People, Christian, Conviction, Israel, Will)
"The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain."
- Tony Benn
(Related: Christ, Nothing, Spain)
"We want to christen every city that Kris has played in during his professional career."
- Anna Benson
(Related: Career, Want)
"If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher."
- Charles Bent
(Related: Christ, Promotion, Righteousness, Suffering)
"An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Christ, Ignorance)
"One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism."
- Peter L. Berger
(Related: Christian, Humanism, Right)
"It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period."
- Dennis Bergkamp
(Related: Winning, Christmas, Focus, Results, Will)
"For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most."
- Annie Besant
(Related: Women, Thought, Christian, Church, Evil, Leaders, Saints)
"No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Civilization, Christian, Worth)
"I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song."
- Clint Black
(Related: Christmas, Old, Song, Songs, Traditions, Writing)
"Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites."
- Nina Blackwood
(Related: Movies, Guest)
"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."
- William Blake
(Related: Forgiveness, Christianity, Glory)
"That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians."
- William Blake
(Related: God, Benefits, Right, Will)
"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."
- William Blake
(Related: Christ)
"Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act."
- Joost de Blank
(Related: Act, Christ, Communism, Country)
"Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Family, People, Christianity)
"In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Christianity)
"The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Christianity)
"The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Christianity, Beliefs)
"This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Christian, Poison)
"For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: God, Christian)
"The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Love, Religion, Christian)
"Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Christianity, Faces)
"I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Thought, Christian, Inventions, Shame)
"During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Home, War, Christianity, School, World, World war)
"I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Christianity, Reform)
"I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Life, Christianity, Heaven)
"I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Experience, Society, Christian, May, Open, Theology)
"I still go to a Christian priory for retreats."
- Lionel Blue
(Related: Christian)
"I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards."
- Suzy Bogguss
(Related: Christmas, Years)
"Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die."
- Anne Boleyn
(Related: People, Christian, Law, Man, Nothing, Will)
"There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."
- Erma Bombeck
(Related: Christmas, Nothing, World)
"America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: Health, Afghanistan, America, Americans, Future, Harm, Iraq, Public, Safety)
"Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: War, Policy, Enemies, Foreign policy, Support, Terror, Troops)
"Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: Health, Life, Technology, Growth, Agriculture, Care, Defense, Economy, Future, Job, Will)
"Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: Change, People)
"History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: History, Reform)
"It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: Health, Time, Control, Care, Chance, Economy, Jobs, Needs)
"Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: Education, Bureaucracy, Children, Focus, Teachers)
"More time on paperwork means less time spent with students or preparing lessons for students. It is as simple as that. The numerous reforms in the bill will go a long way to free our time of special educators."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: Time, Students, Will)
"Yes, beef is what was for dinner last night. Tonight it will be my dinner, and it will continue to be."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: Night, Will)
"To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Christ, Suffering, Tragedy)
"Politics are not the task of a Christian."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Politics, Christian)
"Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it."
- Pat Boone
(Related: Music, Christian, Months, Nothing, Television, Wrong)
"How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority."
- Neal Boortz
(Related: Christian, Authority, Challenge, Military, Question, Schools, Students)
"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell."
- Frank Borman
(Related: Christianity, Capitalism, Hell)
"National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable."
- Martin Bormann
(Related: Christianity, Socialism)
"The great artist is a slave to his ideals."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Artist, Ideals)
"Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Friend, Wine)
"When all else is lost, the future still remains."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Future)
"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Nature, Limits, Trifle)
"We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Man, Past)
"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Fear, Ignorance)
"Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Burden)
"There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Beauty, Life, Fear, Anxiety)
"The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Life)
"The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Men, Development, Law, Laws)
"The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
"They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Faith)
"The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Excess, Fire)
"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Virtue, Affliction)
"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Determination, Failure, Succeed)
"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Example, Followers, Reason)
"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Courage, Cowardice)
"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Doubt, Will)
"Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Earth, Heaven)
"Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Inspiration, Enthusiasm, Man)
"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Friends, Shadow)
"Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Truth, Fame, Words)
"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Talent, Genius)
"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Music, Food, Clothes, First, Want)
"Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Children)
"Living with a saint is more grueling than being one."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Being, Living)
"It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Kiss, Affection, Passion, Sweetness)
"It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Worship)
"In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Love, Successful, Ambition, Merit)
"Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Soul, Earth, Grave, Heaven, Lent, Will)
"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Men, Fear, Wrong)
"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Politics, Being, Merit)
"The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Soul, Body)
"Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Being, Wit, Witty)
"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Happiness, Delusion, Man)
"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Mistake, Discretion, Sound)
"Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Nature, Being, Eyes, Tears)
"Tearless grief bleeds inwardly."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Grief)
"Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Cure, Egotism, Name, Self, Sensibility)
"Our first and last love is self-love."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Love, First, Self)
"Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Imagination, Enemy)
"Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity."
- Christian Nestell Bovee
(Related: Culture, Extreme, Simplicity)
"I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion."
- Jack Bowman
(Related: Education, Religion, Belief, Christian, Christmas, Kids, Schools, Years)
"Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly."
- Malcolm Bradbury
(Related: Corruption, Old, Property, Sin)
"I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet."
- Charles Bradlaugh
(Related: Life, Feet)
"A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider."
- Anne Bradstreet
(Related: Christian, Adversity, State)
"But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both."
- Georg Brandes
(Related: Christianity, Consciousness, Doubt, Horror, Madness, Sin)
"I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come."
- Richard Brautigan
(Related: Christmas, Waiting)
"There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before."
- Susie Bright
(Related: Morality, Christian, Criticism)
"We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Failure, Possibility)
"After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body's way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn't meant to be."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Attitude, Body, First, Pregnancy)
"Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Business, Money, Work, Thought, People, Borrowing, Deals, Job)
"Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you-thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a sudden, it dies."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Life, Eating, Living, Months, Right)
"I just found out that I'm one inch taller than I thought."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Thought)
"I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Love, Man, Post, Stress, Suffering)
"I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Love)
"I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that."
- Christie Brinkley
"Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Art, People)
"Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Life, Time, Want)
"I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack."
- Christie Brinkley
(Related: Love, Devil)
"Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties."
- Charlotte Bronte
(Related: Consistency, Christian, First)
"An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?"
- Peter Brook
(Related: Christ, Earth, Now)
"I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Christmas, Fun, Will)
"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Music, Christianity)
"Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Christ, Divinity, Humanity)
"The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Music, Soul, Heart, Angels, Burden, Care, Christmas, Earth, Old, Song)
"My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out."
- Chris Brown
(Related: Life, Love, Basketball, Day, Ego, End, Games, Job)
"With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic."
- Chris Brown
(Related: Age, People, Artist, Christmas, Song)
"When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas."
- Chris Brown
(Related: Christmas)
"Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief."
- Dan Brown
(Related: Heart, Belief, Christian, Questioning)
"Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had."
- James Brown
(Related: Love, Christ, Respect)
"How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity."
- Olympia Brown
(Related: Christianity, Errors, Principles)
"A lot of people say to me, 'Why did you kill Christ?' I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know."
- Lenny Bruce
(Related: People, Christ)
"There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined."
- Georg Buchner
(Related: Christ)
"When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done."
- Lindsey Buckingham
(Related: Time, Work, Being, Denial, Exercise, Order, Psychology)
"Years on, Christine and John still have a deep love for each other, as do Stevie and I - we've been working together since I was 17."
- Lindsey Buckingham
(Related: Love, Deep, Years)
"ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government."
- Thomas Bulfinch
(Related: Government, Power, Christ, Countries, Europe)
"If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others."
- Anthony Burgess
(Related: Christ, Potential, Will)
"I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument."
- T-Bone Burnett
(Related: Christian, Christianity, Argument, Judaism)
"Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years."
- John Burroughs
(Related: Science, Civilization, Development, Christianity, Years)
"We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic."
- Lance Burton
(Related: Birthday, Money, Time, Books, Christmas, Growing up, Help, Jobs, Magic, Rest)
"When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart."
- George W. Bush
(Related: Life, Heart, Christ)
"I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here."
- Mangosuthu Buthelezi
(Related: People, Christian, Struggle)
"I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas."
- Frank Butler
(Related: Christmas, Lent)
"The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Time, Christian, New testament, World)
"For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another."
- Joseph Butler
(Related: Being, Body, Christ)
"Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: People, Profession)
"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Christ, Quiet)
"Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Adultery, Christ, Cruelty, Divorce)
"The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Family, Religion, Health, Money, Christian, Chastity, Temper, Want)
"People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Religion, People, Christian, Hearing)
"The past was more Christian? At times perhaps, in others, though, no."
- Rocco Buttiglione
(Related: Christian, Past)
"For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force."
- Rocco Buttiglione
(Related: Christian, Communism, Driving, Europe, Fact, Fight, Force)
"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
- Lord Byron
(Related: Christianity, May, Mind, Pleasure)
"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around."
- Herb Caen
(Related: Time, Pain, Trouble)
"Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ."
- John Calvin
(Related: Science, Knowledge, Christ)
"Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian."
- Kirk Cameron
(Related: Food, Christian, Bible, Spiritual, Vow)
"When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right."
- Tony Campolo
(Related: Christian, Country, Now, Right, states, Television, United)
"What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians."
- Albert Camus
(Related: World)
"But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year."
- Trishelle Cannatella
(Related: Christmas)
"Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected."
- Jimmy Cannon
(Related: Christmas, Holiday, Lonely)
"If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that."
- George Carey
(Related: Faith, Conflict, Doubt, Will)
"What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ."
- George Carey
(Related: Church, Body, Christ, Rules, Unity)
"I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part."
- George Carey
(Related: Christian, Being, Play)
"We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great."
- George Carey
(Related: Christianity, America, England)
"From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us."
- George Carey
(Related: Life, Love, God, People, Christian, Honor, Justice, Vulnerability, Want, World)
"I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges."
- George Carey
(Related: Heart, Church, Christ)
"Farewell, dearest friend, never to see one another any more till at the right hand of Christ."
- Donald Cargill
(Related: Friend, Christ, Right)
"Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings."
- Donald Cargill
(Related: Christ, Friends, Preaching, Reading)
"And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ."
- Donald Cargill
(Related: God, Christ, Duty, Forget, Mercy, Merit, Sin)
"Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ."
- Donald Cargill
(Related: Peace, God, Christ, Conscience, Now, Salvation, Sin)
"It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him."
- Donald Cargill
(Related: Death, Lie, God, HusbChrist, Eternity, Mercy, Now)
"I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause."
- Donald Cargill
(Related: Fear, Cause, Christ, Living, Suffering)
"I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people."
- Donald Cargill
(Related: Men, People, Blood, Christ, Interest, Liberty, May, Quiet, Reward, Treachery)
"I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof."
- Allan Carr
(Related: Money, Church, First)
"My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time."
- Jim Carrey
(Related: Time, Mother, Daughter, People, Attention, Christmas, Pain)
"Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas."
- Johnny Carson
(Related: Time, Christmas, Mail, Office, Post)
"We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon."
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: Christ)
"I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ."
- Jimmy Carter
(Related: Christ, Hate, Teaching)
"I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality."
- Sydney Carter
(Related: Heart, Christ, Reality)
"For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Faith, Christian, Concern, Future, May)
"I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ."
- Fidel Castro
(Related: Ideas, Christ, Contradiction, Symbol)
"God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction."
- Richard Cecil
(Related: Love, Experience, God, Hope, Christian, Affliction, Patience, Prayer)
"With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head."
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
(Related: Ideas, Christianity, Deep, End, Man, March, Past, Soldiers, Years)
"This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal."
- Joshua Chamberlain
(Related: Life, Christ, Mystery, Reward, Service)
"The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ."
- Oswald Chambers
(Related: Friend, Christ, Earth, Shadow)
"Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested."
- Oswald Chambers
(Related: Character, Christ)
"An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven."
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
(Related: Time, Christian, Earth, Heaven, May, Snow)
"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."
- Charlie Chaplin
(Related: America, Christ, President)
"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind."
- Mary Ellen Chase
(Related: Children, Christmas, Mind, State)
"By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty."
- Samuel Chase
(Related: Religion, Government, Christian, Liberty, Protection, Religious)
"Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried."
- Stuart Chase
(Related: Christianity, Democracy)
"They do not walk in... the path of Christ."
- Hugo Chavez
(Related: Christ)
"This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Faith, God, Church, Christ, Doctrine, First, Will, Writing)
"Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Body, Christ, Eating, Meaning)
"In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Faith, Nature, Brother, God, Christ, First, Man)
"For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: God, Christ, Man, May, Order)
"As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Christian, Necessity, Present)
"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?"
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: God, Time, Children, Christmas)
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Christian)
"Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Related: Christianity)
"If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Bible, Beginning, Immortality, Prophecy, Will)
"None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists."
- Alex Chiu
(Related: Day, Invention, Neighbors, Will)
"In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Nature, Religion, Ethics, Injustice)
"The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Power, Meaning, Symbol)
"The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Religion, Women, Present, Will)
"Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Women, Work, Courage, Christian, Bravery, Respect, Years)
"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Birds, Body, Connection, Earth, Meditation)
"Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?"
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: God)
"The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Men, Mother, Daughter, Daughters)
"The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Death, Life, Nature, Delight, Diversity, Europe, Old, Unity)
"Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Being, Language)
"Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Women, Moon, Symbol)
"Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Women, Body, Humanity, Spirit)
"In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Death, Religion, Life)
"Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Values, Beliefs, Will, Years)
"If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?"
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: God)
"The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Values, Behavior)
"I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Religion, Women, Work, First, Religious, University)
"After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Women, Research)
"At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: First, Interest)
"Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Religion, People, Deep, Fathers)
"In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Women, Agriculture, Discovery, Europe, Old)
"The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before."
- Carol P. Christ
(Related: Act, Woman)
"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Life, Father, Truth)
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Love)
"All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Authority, Earth, Heaven)
"All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Love, Adultery)
"And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Time, End)
"As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: God, Living, Will)
"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Father)
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears by voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Voice, Will)
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Trust, God)
"Every knee will bend before me, and every tongue shall give glory to God."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: God, Glory, Tongue, Will)
"For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Will)
"For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Life, Son, God, World)
"So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Will)
"For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?"
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Soul, Gain, Loss, Man, Profit, World)
"I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Truth, Eye, Heaven, Man)
"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Will)
"If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Heaven, Poor, Possessions, Treasure, Want, Will)
"It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Repentance)
"Let me into your lives, your world. Live on me, so that you may become truly alive."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: May, World)
"Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: First, Sin)
"Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: God, Children, World)
"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: God, Man, Word)
"My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Fight, Now, World)
"Open the door to me, as I have opened myself for you."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Open)
"See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Death, Life, Day, Evil)
"For we walk in faith, not by sight."
- Jesus Christ
(Related: Faith, Sight)
"I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth."
- Clayton Christensen
(Related: Family, God, Bible, Earth, Mormon, Study)
"You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care."
- Clayton Christensen
(Related: Care, Gravity, Hate, May)
"Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served."
- Clayton Christensen
(Related: Men, Women, Gratitude, Chance, Help)
"We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it."
- Clayton Christensen
(Related: Christian, Care, Living)
"This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth."
- Clayton Christensen
(Related: Happiness, Truth)
"I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues."
- Clayton Christensen
(Related: Power, God)
"I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me."
- Clayton Christensen
(Related: Eternity, Events, Future, Visions)
"Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15."
- Clayton Christensen
(Related: Home, Church, Children, Day, School, Scripture, Study, Years)
"Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults."
- Clayton Christensen
(Related: Children, Community)
"Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents."
- Clayton Christensen
(Related: Women, Church, Children, Grandparents)
"As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ."
- Clayton Christensen
(Related: Power, God, Bible, Books, Christ, Mormon, Spirit)
"The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness."
- Clayton Christensen
(Related: Happiness, Father, Son, God, Christ, Deep, Fact, Trying, Want)
"The thing about that too is that we had the same extras everyday. It was such a community. It was like a microcosmic little town. We were like all little towns people with extras and a crew."
- Erika Christensen
(Related: People, Community)
"I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help."
- Erika Christensen
(Related: Experience, Life, People, Drugs, Help, Want)
"I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience."
- Erika Christensen
(Related: Experience, Love)
"My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control."
- Erika Christensen
(Related: Control)
"Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it's the perfect role for her. It's so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional."
- Erika Christensen
(Related: Right)
"We were worried about that actually. The cast was thinking that they'd lose their minds. But we didn't."
- Erika Christensen
(Related: Thinking)
"One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role."
- Hayden Christensen
(Related: Acting, Actor)
"A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation."
- Hayden Christensen
(Related: Time, Country, Imitation, Old, Years)
"I'm just this kid from Toronto who got his start."
- Hayden Christensen
"I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Acting, Chance)
"When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Life, Body, Emotion, Film)
"I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since."
- Helena Christensen
"I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Friends)
"In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Energy, Trying)
"Kate is going to come back, she is going to be super-strong again. Everybody is going to want her again because she is that kind of person. She is very professional and beautiful and she is going to be around forever."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Want)
"The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Beauty, People, Country, Eye, World)
"There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Life, Care)
"This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Confidence, Ruin, Want)
"When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Actors, Emotions, Environment, Film, Play, Voice)
"I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later."
- Helena Christensen
(Related: Photography)
"I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone."
- Claudia Christian
(Related: Actors)
"If I didn't have to do it, I wouldn't have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn't have done Playboy."
- Claudia Christian
"I'm gonna be a character in a Happy Meal."
- Claudia Christian
(Related: Character)
"I'm more embarrassed about some of the films that I've been in than I am about Playboy. Playboy I'm actually quite proud of."
- Claudia Christian
"I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways."
- Claudia Christian
(Related: Old)
"I give everyone the benefit of the doubt."
- Claudia Christian
(Related: Doubt)
"Directors never give you anything."
- Claudia Christian
"I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other."
- Claudia Christian
(Related: People, Violence, World)
"It's great when you find somebody you're compatible with, but I'm really into separate bedrooms. You live your life and I live mine."
- Claudia Christian
(Related: Life)
"Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare."
- Claudia Christian
(Related: Applause)
"Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them."
- Claudia Christian
(Related: Trust)
"I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old."
- Claudia Christian
(Related: Old, Theatre, Years)
"You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel."
- Claudia Christian
"The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating."
- Claudia Christian
(Related: Life, Job)
"I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes."
- Claudia Christian
(Related: Causes, Will)
"Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading."
- Arthur Christiansen
(Related: Time, First, Reading)
"News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper."
- Arthur Christiansen
(Related: News, Want)
"We never waste space saying, "On the one hand." We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice."
- Arthur Christiansen
(Related: Opinion, Saying, Space, State, Voice, Waste)
"Never do anything yourself that others can do for you."
- Agatha Christie
"Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Will, World)
"It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story."
- Agatha Christie
"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Love, Thought, People)
"If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Principles)
"I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: People, Worry, Writing)
"I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Interest, Quiet)
"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Evil)
"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Mother, Idleness, Invention, Laziness, Necessity, Opinion, Trouble)
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Living, Sorrow)
"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Life, Moments)
"I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Time, Now, Waiting, Will)
"I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me."
- Agatha Christie
"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Life, Childhood)
"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Time)
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: People)
"The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Life, People, Idea, Popular, Right, Years)
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
- Agatha Christie
"There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Nothing, World)
"Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Eternity)
"These little grey cells. It is up to them."
- Agatha Christie
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Advice, Reason)
"Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: First, Justice, Mercy, Victims)
"Very few of us are what we seem."
- Agatha Christie
"Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Money, Trust)
"Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Dogs, Quiet, World, Wounds)
"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: God, Free will, Man)
"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Husband, Woman)
"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: People, Habits)
"Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Soul, Attitude, Actions, Crime, Habits, Mind, Will)
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Sorrow)
"Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Love, Fool, Man, Woman)
"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Friend, Old)
"But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price."
- Agatha Christie
(Related: Love)
"One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Health, Life, Benefits, Care, Career, Investment, Old, Retirement, State, Will, Years)
"Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Family, Muslim, Day, First, Pain, Post, Radical, Sorrow)
"Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Government, Choices, Road, Ruin, Taxes, Will)
"I am not going to make any commitments to the teachers union to do anything until they do something that's other than in their own self- interest. And everything they have done so far is in their self-interests, and that's it."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Interest, Self, Teachers)
"I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Reform, Will)
"I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey."
- Chris Christie
(Related: People, America, Balance, State, Taxes)
"And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Government, Life, Money, People, Country, State, Taxes, Wrong)
"Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?"
- Chris Christie
(Related: Change, Government, Trust, People, Question, Trouble, Wonder)
"A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Family, Health, Medical, Vision, Benefits, Care, Career, Nothing, Will)
"Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Time, Sacrifice, People, Crisis, Now, Solution, State)
"Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Government)
"The people elected us to end the talk and to act decisively."
- Chris Christie
(Related: People, Act, End, Talk)
"Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Action, Balance, Complaining, Day, End, State, Statesmanship, Today)
"Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Government, People, End, Today)
"You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Numbers)
"You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Public, World)
"If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Growth, Act, Decisions, First, Now, Race, states, Will)
"And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Past, Reform, Right, Will)
"Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization."
- Julie Christie
(Related: America, Living)
"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Celebrity, Regret)
"I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Mother, Being, Responsibility)
"As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Politics, Now, Regret)
"I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Life, Peace, Mind, Will)
"I think I've got something when I'm onscreen, but that's nothing to do with acting or talent."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Talent, Acting, Nothing)
"I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Acting, Attention, World)
"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Cinema)
"I'd never been content in America."
- Julie Christie
(Related: America, Content)
"I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Love, Business, People, Advertising, Film, Integrity)
"I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Marriage, People)
"It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Attention, Being)
"I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Order)
"Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Men, Responsibility, Want)
"Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Love, Time, America, American)
"My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Family, Act, Jungle, Living, Tea)
"Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it."
- Julie Christie
(Related: People, Celebrity)
"The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Life, First, Years)
"The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Children, Media)
"There were some films I refused because the feminist aspect was a bit wonky."
- Julie Christie
"When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Age, Consciousness, Woman)
"I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Light, London)
"I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Men, Women, America, Inequality, Living)
"I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Women, Heaven)
"It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Time)
"Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Happiness, Absence, Suffering, World)
"Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Children)
"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Film)
"Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine."
- Julie Christie
(Related: Attention)
"I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it."
- Julie Christie
"There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it."
- Linford Christie
(Related: Money, Day, Rain)
"But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012."
- Linford Christie
"I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works."
- Linford Christie
(Related: Coach)
"I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it."
- Linford Christie
(Related: Work, Coach, Day)
"I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted."
- Linford Christie
(Related: Talent, Athletes, Meetings)
"I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012."
- Linford Christie
(Related: Athletes)
"I know what it takes to get to the top."
- Linford Christie
"I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it."
- Linford Christie
(Related: Work, Pride)
"I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful."
- Linford Christie
(Related: Successful, Athletes)
"If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things."
- Linford Christie
"My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority."
- Linford Christie
(Related: Love, First, First love, Will)
"Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise."
- Linford Christie
(Related: Diet, Exercise)
"Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete."
- Linford Christie
(Related: Life, Money, Athletes, Job, Pride, School, Today)
"We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star."
- Linford Christie
(Related: Athletes, Coaches, Country)
"Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse, because it was my own track named after me, but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back, and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can, coaching and advising."
- Linford Christie
(Related: Coaching, Will)
"The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here."
- Perry Christie
(Related: People, Day, Suffering)
"I even had the illusion, for a very short time, that I could become a medium pace bowler."
- Perry Christie
(Related: Time, Illusion)
"I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance."
- Perry Christie
(Related: Experience, People, Country, Partnership)
"The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity."
- Perry Christie
"Fools are more to be feared than the wicked."
- Queen Christina
(Related: Fools)
"It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life."
- Queen Christina
(Related: Life, Occupation, Self)
"We wish to work in total freedom."
- Christo
(Related: Work, Freedom)
"Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world."
- Christo
(Related: War, End, Europe, Germany, World)
"If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music."
- Christo
(Related: Music)
"It appears to be monumental only because it's art."
- Christo
(Related: Art)
"New York is our home."
- Christo
(Related: Home)
"Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian."
- Christo
(Related: Art, Meaning, Now, Projects)
"Our work is a scream of freedom."
- Christo
(Related: Work, Freedom)
"People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create."
- Christo
(Related: Work, Art, People)
"That could stay, not forever, because we believe that nothing exists that is forever, not even the dinosaurs, but if well maintained, it could remain for four to five thousand years. And that is definitely not forever."
- Christo
(Related: Nothing, Years)
"The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side."
- Christo
(Related: Decision, Artist, Name)
"But the drawings are not created only to be sold."
- Christo
"You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer."
- Christo
(Related: Ideas, Machines)
"It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years."
- Christo
(Related: Work, Collaboration, Partnership, Years)
"We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it."
- Christo
(Related: Beauty, Work, Hope, Joy, Majority, Will)
"We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards."
- Christo
(Related: Art, Chicago, Museums)
"We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage."
- Christo
"To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone."
- Christo
(Related: Freedom)
"Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like."
- Christo
(Related: People, Talk, Will)
"Therefore we have to go over the fact that all human beings are afraid by what is new. It is our work to convince them that they will enjoy it, and even if they don't, to allow us just for 14 days to create that work of art."
- Christo
(Related: Art, Work, Fact, Will)
"The work of art is a scream of freedom."
- Christo
(Related: Art, Work, Freedom)
"The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next."
- Christo
(Related: Work, Project, State, Trying, Will)
"The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back."
- Christo
(Related: Islands, Workers)
"The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park."
- Christo
(Related: People, Leisure)
"The freedom of every artist is essential."
- Christo
(Related: Artist, Freedom)
"But now, today, we don't know if Over the River is truly the next project to be realized, because something very nice happened to our life in November in New York."
- Christo
(Related: Life, Now, Project, Today)
"Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle."
- Christo
(Related: Now, Projects)
"Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards."
- Christo
(Related: Books)
"And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park."
- Christo
"And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified."
- Christo
(Related: Idea, Detail, Now, Project, Years)
"You hope for the best, but it's really OK if you don't win. They say it's just nice to be nominated, and it really is."
- Tyler Christopher
(Related: Hope)
"Working with my new coach has helped a lot. I've been a lot more focused and I'm doing all the little things in order to get faster. It's been a total lifestyle change really."
- Tyler Christopher
(Related: Change, Coach, Order)
"The key is to keep improving. I'm not there yet. I know I have to keep trying to improve and keep trying to get faster."
- Tyler Christopher
(Related: Key, Trying)
"We've had some fairly intensive discussions leading up to these meetings between NATO and Russia, preparing for them, and it's going to be a very important six months for NATO."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Leading, Meetings, Months, Russia)
"You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Dream, Commitment, Europe, President, Will)
"We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Country, President)
"When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Purpose)
"The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: War, Will)
"My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: History, Advice, Justice)
"My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Health, Father, Old, Years)
"One always wonders about roads not taken."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Wonders)
"Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: America, Countries)
"Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: War, Man, Now, Soldiers)
"The monitors indicated that it was a credible election, I think, in an overall sense, it apparently is a free and fair election, so it's a real milestone and one of the things we can take some little confidence in."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Confidence, Sense)
"I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Intelligence, Congress, Public, Talk, Want, Will)
"The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Peace)
"The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Democracy, Interest, Promotion)
"The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Intelligence, War, Country, Information, states, United, World)
"This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Country, Russia)
"We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: People, Boats, Countries, Rights, Human rights, Interest, states, United)
"Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: War, President, State, World, World war)
"It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Country, Question)
"We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Being, Obligation)
"We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Concern, Reform, Russia, Self)
"I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Intentions)
"I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Friendship)
"It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Strength, American, Consequences, Now, Troops)
"It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Europe, July, June, Russia, Vice, Will)
"Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory."
- Warren Christopher
"It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Temper)
"Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Time, Wife, Job)
"I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: People)
"I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Promise, Reassurance, Russia, Talking)
"I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Will)
"I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: News, Problems)
"I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Key, Responsibility)
"Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?"
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Peace, Opponents)
"It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Dream, Europe, President)
"Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders."
- Warren Christopher
(Related: Environmental, Crime, Nation, Problems, Terrorism, World)
"It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on."
- William Christopher
(Related: Hope, Day, Fun)
"I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic."
- William Christopher
(Related: Life, People, Actor, Being, Class, First, Magic, Play, Profession)
"Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree."
- Frank Howard Clark
(Related: Christmas, Kisses, Pleasure)
"Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: Christ, Talk)
"This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: God, Christ, Holiness, Man, Perfection, State)
"As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: Christ)
"But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: Nature, Angels, Christ, Human nature)
"If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: Work, God, Christ, Followers, Living, Man, Satan, Sin, Spirit, Will)
"Let it ever be remembered that genuine faith in Christ will ever be productive of good works; for this faith worketh by love, as the apostle says, and love to God always produces obedience to his holy laws."
- Adam Clarke
(Related: Faith, Love, God, Christ, Laws, Obedience, Will)
"Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ."
- John Clayton
(Related: Christ, Thanksgiving)
"The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other."
- John Clayton
(Related: Christ, Christmas, Competition, Focus, Guilt, Pressure, World)
"There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday."
- John Clayton
(Related: Beauty, People, Positive, Christian, Holiday, May, Spirit, Thanksgiving)
"There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. There was no nationalistic, political or ethnic superiority to be thankful for."
- John Clayton
(Related: People, Superiority)
"Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?"
- John Clayton
(Related: Faith, History, Church, Christ, New testament, Worship)
"Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another."
- John Clayton
(Related: Time, God, Christian, Appreciation, Being, Buying, Giving, Thanksgiving, World)
"Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century."
- John Clayton
(Related: Creation, New testament, Questions, Worship)
"Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday."
- John Clayton
(Related: Christmas, Holiday, Man, Pretty, Thanksgiving)
"Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him."
- John Clayton
(Related: God, Positive, Fact, Grace, Man, Thanksgiving)
"The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence."
- John Clayton
(Related: Legal, Society, Christ)
"Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus."
- John Clayton
(Related: Writing)
"I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing."
- John Cleese
(Related: Family, Christmas, Walking)
"I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead."
- Clarence Clemons
(Related: Christmas)
"If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it."
- Bruce Cockburn
(Related: Love, God, Heart, Christian, Bible, Mind)
"Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Christ, Evolution)
"He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Truth, Christianity, Church, End, Will)
"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Related: Life, Christianity, Living, Philosophy, Theory)
"When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal."
- Christiane Collage
(Related: Minority, Order, Right)
"Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world."
- Christiane Collage
(Related: Talent, Common sense, World)
"Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity."
- Charles Colson
(Related: People, Children, Day, Gifts, Humanity)
"These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Men, People)
"Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Land, Tomorrow)
"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Houses)
"The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: April)
"Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Night)
"Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Day)
"No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Fear, Intention, Name, Service)
"I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass."
- Christopher Columbus
"I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: April, Desire, Years)
"I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues."
- Christopher Columbus
"I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Man)
"Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Man)
"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Intelligence, Execution, Mathematics)
"For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Purpose, Day, Will)
"I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Purpose, Grace, Mercy)
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Light, Old, Sun, World)
"By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Goal, May, Obstacles)
"But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Truth, Purpose, Gold, Quantity, Quest)
"After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: People, Doubt, Terror)
"Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise."
- Christopher Columbus
(Related: Paradise, Gold, Treasure, Wishes, World)
"There are no strangers on Christmas Eve."
- Adele Comandini
(Related: Christmas, Strangers)
"It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things."
- Billy Connolly
(Related: God, Christianity, Islam, Judaism)
"Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action."
- Cyril Connolly
(Related: Faith, Thought, Action, Belief, Sense, Sin)
"Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!"
- Dane Cook
"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."
- Calvin Coolidge
(Related: Peace, Time, Christmas, Goodwill, Mercy, Mind, Spirit, State)
"Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion."
- Alice Cooper
(Related: Christian, Being, Drinking, Rebellion)
"Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want."
- James F. Cooper
(Related: Christian, Slavery, Suffering, Want)
"Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up."
- Wendy Cope
(Related: Peace, Men, Christmas, Earth, Goodwill)
"In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales."
- Francis Ford Coppola
(Related: Christian, Job)
"I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light."
- Billy Corgan
(Related: God, Negative, Vision, Christian, Body, Focus, Light, Now)
"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: War, Christianity, Cities, Countries, Leaders)
"I know Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that's all I really need to know."
- Ann Coulter
(Related: Christ)
"Christmas makes everything twice as sad."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Christmas)
"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."
- Marcelene Cox
(Related: Children, Christmas, Politicians)
"Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history."
- Ralph A. Cram
(Related: History, Education, Science, Wealth, Christianity, Democracy, Inheritance, Repetition, Years)
"As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased."
- Ralph A. Cram
(Related: Power, Christianity)
"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken."
- Oliver Cromwell
(Related: Christ, May)
"Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer."
- James Cronin
(Related: Family, Chicago, Christmas, Summer)
"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'."
- Bing Crosby
(Related: Blessings, Christmas, Snow)
"If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song."
- Christopher Cross
(Related: Guitar, Play, Song)
"I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft."
- Christopher Cross
"God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia."
- Russell Crowe
(Related: God, America, Christ, Queen)
"A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people."
- Billy Ray Cyrus
(Related: God, Son, People, Christianity, Being, Earth)
"I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished."
- Willem Dafoe
(Related: Lie, Christ, Fun, Lying)
"We also need people like social workers, volunteers, the Christian Industrial League, drug treatment programs to make sure you are getting them a job. That's what you have to do. Otherwise, we just keep stepping around these things."
- Richard M. Daley
(Related: People, Christian, Job, Treatment, Workers)
"My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referring to, but I want to do some of my old gospel favorites. That's what my next album's going to be."
- Charlie Daniels
(Related: Christian, Old, Project, Songs, Want, Will)
"It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?"
- Glenn Danzig
(Related: Power, People, Evil, Kids, Trying)
"I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ."
- John Nelson Darby
(Related: God, Christ, Righteousness)
"Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I."
- John Nelson Darby
(Related: Christ, Poor)
"Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin."
- John Nelson Darby
(Related: Christian, Duty, Evil, Sin, Will)
"This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head."
- John Nelson Darby
(Related: God, Truth, Children, Scripture)
"Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate."
- John Nelson Darby
(Related: Death, Character, Christianity, First)
"Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ."
- John Nelson Darby
(Related: Christ, New testament, Nothing)
"The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Day, Events)
"That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Americans, Law, Question)
"The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Compassion, Justice, Law)
"That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Lawyers, Will)
"It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still write and practice law and take power of attorney."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Power, Kids, Law, Practice, School, Trying)
"It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Writing)
"Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: People, Attention)
"Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Work, Fun, Hard work, Writing)
"I'm real bent on dialogue. I'm just a little bit crazy and when you put that along with 20 years as a criminal lawyer, it's pretty easy to come up with some interesting plots."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Pretty, Years)
"It did not prepare me for writing or "Power of Attorney." However, what it did is that it forced me out of the DA's office. I stopped getting that county check."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Office, Writing)
"I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Actor, February, Television, Today, Will)
"I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Law, Night, Sleep, Students)
"I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Family, Money)
"I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Performance, Being, Hurt)
"I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Hope, Provocative, Will, Writing)
"I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: People, Editors, May, Will)
"I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Fact, Focus, School, Wood)
"I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Anger, Months, Writing)
"In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Health, Law, Reason)
"In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: People, Fact, Woman)
"It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: People, Reading, Want)
"I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Care, Kids, Living, Man, Trying, Will, Writer)
"I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: America, Discovery, Fact, Play, School, Writing)
"I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Thought, Difference, Law, School)
"All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Crime, Hell)
"I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something."
- Christopher Darden
(Related: Work, Fact)
"Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer."
- Patti Davis
(Related: Open, Research, Today, Treatment, Years)
"Christopher Reeve understood that... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body."
- Patti Davis
(Related: Belief, Hope, Vision, Body, Walking)
"Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Age, History, Civilization, Development, Cooperation, Existence)
"Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Life, Dependence, Feeling, Man, Supernatural, World)
"The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Age, Values, Present)
"The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Religious, Solution, Spiritual)
"The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Knowledge, Ideas, Europe, Influence, Literary)
"The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Language, Understanding)
"Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Act, American, Corporate, Revolution, Self, states, United)
"The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Life, Society, Church)
"Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Christian)
"No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Change, Nature, Society, Lies, states, United, World)
"No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Civilization, Culture, Doubt, Driving, Force, Passion, Past, Self, Unconscious)
"Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Religion, Life, Positive, Christianity, Body, Culture, Destruction, Opinion)
"Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: End, Man)
"This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Civilization, Freedom)
"Law describes the way things would work if men were angels."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Men, Work, Angels, Law)
"It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Christianity, Culture, Mission, Race)
"It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Church, Culture, Limitations, Supernatural)
"It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: History, Life, Nature, Christian, Doctrine, Human nature, Value)
"If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Life, Values, Existence, Limits, Man)
"Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Nature, Being, Culture, Divinity, Grace, Humanism, Order)
"Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Society, Ideals, Loyalty, Principles, Spiritual)
"But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Work, Folk, Heroes, Hollywood, Myths, Poets)
"As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Men, Evil, Fight)
"As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Religion, Christian, Culture, Idealism, Lies, Morals, Tradition)
"And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Faith, Christian, Old, Principles, State, Today, Tradition, Will)
"American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: American, Content, Literature, World)
"You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Food, Men, Work, Leisure, Will)
"Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Life, Christian, Ethics, Humanism)
"For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Men, Nature, Blood, Class, Culture, Human nature, Humanism, Humanity, Language, Limitations)
"The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism."
- Christopher Dawson
(Related: Control, Idealism, Nationalism, Nations, Spirit, United)
"When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us."
- Dorothy Day
(Related: Christ, Literature, Meetings, Night, Reading, Spiritual, Study)
"It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him."
- Dorothy Day
(Related: Faith, Food, Money, God, Christ, Hospitality, Living, Needs, Support, Will)
"I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else."
- Howard Dean
(Related: Business, Christian, Worship)
"I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Women, Thought, Christian, Country, Learning, World)
"According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time."
- Grazia Deledda
(Related: Time, Christmas, End, Will)
"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."
- Iris DeMent
(Related: Life, Christian, Religious)
"I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Christian)
"In the nineties I was doing those Blues Bureau records, but over the past two years, I have really gone back to my Christian roots and have been born again."
- Rick Derringer
(Related: Christian, Past, Years)
"For me, I go in and play a few Christian songs for an audience, and now I have people come up and not tell me I'm great, but tell me that my music is helping save their lives, helping them in the Lord, and helping them end their vices."
- Rick Derringer
(Related: Music, People, Christian, End, Now, Play, Songs, Vices)
"One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!"
- Bernadette Devlin
(Related: People, American, Christ, Hate, Ireland, Name)
"There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed."
- Andy Dick
(Related: People)
"Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic."
- Andy Dick
(Related: Time, People, Christian, Wrong)
"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"
- Charles Dickens
(Related: Childhood, Christmas, Man, Old, Quiet, Youth)
"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
- Charles Dickens
(Related: Heart, Christmas, Honor, Will)
"The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children."
- Denis Diderot
(Related: God, Father, Apples, Children)
"The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me."
- Denis Diderot
(Related: Blood, Christ)
"What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day."
- Phyllis Diller
(Related: Christmas, Day, Job, Office)
"A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting."
- Christian Dior
(Related: Woman)
"Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest."
- Christian Dior
(Related: Beauty, Zest)
"Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely."
- Christian Dior
(Related: Women)
"The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail."
- Christian Dior
(Related: Will)
"My dream is to save women from nature."
- Christian Dior
(Related: Nature, Women, Dream)
"Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Decision, Rights, Practice, Wrong)
"Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Children, Help, Potential)
"It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Development, Help, Right)
"By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Opportunity, Economy, Job, Meeting, Nation, Needs, Prosperity)
"Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Bombs, Iraq, Military, Safety, Troops)
"Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Home, Soldiers)
"It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Food, Americans, Forget)
"I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Country, Fact, Pride)
"I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Fight, Jobs, Workers)
"I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!"
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Care, Public)
"Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Children, Nation, Treasure)
"For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Democrats, Environment, Republicans)
"Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Education, Possibility, Students, Tools)
"It's time to renew our commitment to the world around us."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Time, Commitment, World)
"Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Ability, American, Chance, Circumstances, Effort, Freedom, Gender, Privacy, Race, Will)
"Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Work, Goals, Day, Defense, First, Help, Workers)
"As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Oil)
"As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Leader, America, Challenge, World)
"American workers are first rate."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: American, First, Workers)
"America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Purpose, America, Day, End, Nation)
"All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Health, Quality, Americans, Care)
"Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Economy, Years)
"The world changed on September 11, 2001."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: World)
"We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Environmental, Growth, Protection)
"We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Children, State)
"When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Free speech, Rights, Press, Public, Risk)
"Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights."
- Christopher Dodd
(Related: Health, Work, Development, Rights, Needs, Will)
"Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes."
- Christopher Dodd
"Britney would make a better prostitute than Christina. She's thicker."
- Snoop Dogg
"Working with Christopher, he convinced me he could fly, and he's convinced me he's going to walk again."
- Richard Donner
"Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon."
- Carrie Donovan
(Related: Dying, Entertainment, Fashion, Kids)
"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
- Mary Douglas
(Related: Science, Growth, Christianity)
"To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain."
- Henry Drummond
(Related: Achievement, Ambition, Caring, Christ, Folly, Man, World, Worth)
"If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens."
- David Duchovny
(Related: Christ, Talk)
"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."
- Carol Ann Duffy
(Related: Father, Belief, Christmas)
"Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved."
- Isadora Duncan
(Related: Art, Love, Christ, World)
"When my parents separated, I was very grateful."
- Christopher Durang
(Related: Parents)
"Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that."
- Christopher Durang
(Related: College, Film)
"Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them."
- Christopher Durang
(Related: Funny, Balance, Care, Parents, Play)
"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."
- Christopher Durang
(Related: Act, Acting, Job, Resentment)
"My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply."
- Christopher Durang
(Related: Mother, Father, Thought, Profession)
"On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid."
- Christopher Durang
"My parents didn't really know one another."
- Christopher Durang
(Related: Parents)
"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."
- Christopher Durang
(Related: Theatre, Writer)
"I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius."
- Christopher Durang
(Related: Sister)
"Laughter can bring a new perspective."
- Christopher Durang
(Related: Laughter, Perspective)
"Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ."
- Albrecht Durer
(Related: Christ, Help, Madness, May, Voice, World)
"Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess."
- Gregg Easterbrook
(Related: History, Christian, Being, Identity, Now, Persecution)
"I've never been up with the times, always been slightly out of step."
- Christopher Eccleston
"On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Trying)
"Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Years)
"Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: People, Class, Middle class, Running)
"It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Parents)
"Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Actor, Help, Support, Want)
"My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!"
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Women, Thought, Parents)
"Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Dad, Disability, Learning, Quick)
"Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Shakespeare)
"Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: People, Church, Television, Theatre)
"Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: People, Television)
"The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Mother, Father, Crisis, Film, Identity, Parents)
"The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Money, Acting, Television, Theatre)
"Theatre is expensive to go to. I certainly felt when I was growing up that theatre wasn't for us. Theatre still has that stigma to it. A lot of people feel intimidated and underrepresented in theatre."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: People, Growing up, Theatre)
"We all need a firm sense of identity."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Identity, Sense)
"I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Want)
"We like to think that our parents made a decision to bring us into the world."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Decision, Parents, World)
"What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Eye, Film)
"The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: First, Job)
"I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Abuse, School)
"Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Horror)
"I care more about telly because it made me an actor and there's a much more immediate response to TV. You can address the political or cultural fabric of your country."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Actor, Care, Country)
"I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Idea, Being, Light)
"I don't see a lot of films. I'm quite choosy, but there's certain films that stick out."
- Christopher Eccleston
"I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!"
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Actor, First, Play)
"I had bags of energy as a kid."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Energy)
"I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Time, Mind, School, Shakespeare)
"I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Being, Years)
"I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Dad)
"I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Love, Work)
"I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Love, Thought, Class)
"I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors."
- Christopher Eccleston
"I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Actor, Film, Television, Theatre)
"I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Love)
"I think theatre is by far the most rewarding experience for an actor. You get 4 weeks to rehearse your character and then at 7:30 pm you start acting and nobody stops you, acting with your entire soul."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Experience, Soul, Character, Acting, Actor, Theatre)
"I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative."
- Christopher Eccleston
"I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility."
- Christopher Eccleston
(Related: Help, Responsibility)
"The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day."
- David Eddings
(Related: Work, Boss, Christmas, Day, World)
"If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident."
- Mary Baker Eddy
(Related: Science, God, Truth, Christianity, Accident, Law)
"If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again."
- John Edwards
(Related: Work, People, Country, President, Will)
"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
- George Eliot
(Related: Man, May, Opposition, Persecution)
"We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything."
- George Eliot
(Related: Faith, Christ, Miracles, Prayer, Will)
"I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to."
- Jane Elliot
(Related: Religion, Christian, Practice, Right, Worship)
"I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?"
- Jane Elliot
(Related: People, News)
"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."
- Havelock Ellis
(Related: Christianity, Affection, Chastity, Exercise, Intimacy, Romantic, Sexes)
"It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Heart, Christian, Desire, Nothing, Office)
"Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change."
- Shusaku Endo
(Related: Change, Christianity)
"A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians."
- Susan Estrich
(Related: Party, Republican, Republicans)
"Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas."
- Dale Evans
(Related: Love, Time, Action, Christmas)
"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."
- Jerry Falwell
(Related: Failure, Christian, Being)
"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country."
- Jerry Falwell
(Related: Politics, Religion, Idea, Country, Devil, Running)
"There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas."
- Jerry Falwell
(Related: Christmas, Effort)
"I am a Christian."
- Jerry Falwell
(Related: Christian)
"Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions."
- Jerry Falwell
(Related: Questions, Soldiers)
"I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?"
- Dennis Farina
(Related: Christ, Visit, Writing)
"I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them."
- Frances Farmer
(Related: Christ, Christmas, School)
"Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith."
- Austin Farrer
(Related: Faith, Love, Christian, Acting)
"Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling."
- Edna Ferber
(Related: Christmas, Feeling)
"If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it's good enough for Texas."
- Ma Ferguson
(Related: Christ, English)
"I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness."
- Carrie Fisher
(Related: Christian, Being, Christmas, Kindness)
"We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ."
- John Fiske
(Related: Christ, World)
"My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church."
- Henry Fonda
(Related: Family, Christian, Church, Being, Relatives, Scientists)
"I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away."
- Henry Fonda
(Related: Religion, Science, People, Christian, Reading, Renunciation, Years)
"I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians."
- Luke Ford
(Related: Life, Religion, People, Purpose, Nonsense, Want)
"I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian."
- Luke Ford
(Related: People, Christian, English, Mission, World)
"And I did a movie called Basil with Jared Leto and Christian Slater."
- Claire Forlani
(Related: Christian)
"When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing."
- Maureen Forrester
(Related: Women, Mother, Christian, Baseball, Hate, Meetings, Play, Temperance)
"Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
(Related: Change, Cause, Profit)
"If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love."
- Robbie Fowler
(Related: Love, Time, Christmas, Day, First, First love, Now, Proof)
"Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?"
- George Fox
(Related: Power, Faith, Christ, Man)
"I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell."
- Matthew Fox
(Related: Money, Fear, Christian, Greed, Hell)
"A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure."
- John Foxe
(Related: Christian, Being, Mercy)
"When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory."
- John Foxe
(Related: Flowers, Glory, Heaven)
"Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy."
- John Foxe
(Related: Church, Christ, Day, May, Nothing, Prophecy)
"We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those."
- John Frame
(Related: God, Christian, Conservative, Liberal, Liberty, Scripture, Students, Worship)
"I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels."
- Vincent Frank
(Related: Time, April, Christmas, Community)
"The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life."
- Al Franken
(Related: Life, Christian, Culture, Extreme, Global warming, Hypocrisy, Poverty, Religious, Right)
"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: Christmas, Conscience)
"Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love."
- Lucinda Franks
(Related: Love, Men, Baby, Christmas, Night)
"Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on."
- Chris Frantz
(Related: Christmas)
"Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas."
- Dennis Franz
(Related: Chicago, Christmas)
"I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year."
- David Friedman
(Related: Christmas, Goodbye, Grace, Luck)
"Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart, and... both of them were independents, by the way."
- Kinky Friedman
(Related: Heart)
"Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Poetry, Time, Virtue, Attention, Being, Prose)
"In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Life, Time, Existence, First, Want)
"The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Disgrace, Public, School)
"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Home)
"What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean."
- Christopher Fry
"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Comedy, Eternity, Tragedy)
"I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Life, Time, Existence, First, Want)
"Has made an honest woman of the supernatural."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Supernatural, Woman)
"Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Faith, Truth, Comedy, Despair)
"Coffee in England is just toasted milk."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Coffee, England)
"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Death, May, Understanding)
"The dark is light enough."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Light)
"Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly."
- Christopher Fry
(Related: Imagination, Truth, Eye)
"Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian."
- Roger Fry
(Related: Christian)
"Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive."
- Stephen Fry
(Related: Travel, Christmas, First, Proof)
"What I can do for my country, I am willing to do."
- Christopher Gadsden
(Related: Country)
"I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed."
- Christopher Gadsden
(Related: Faith, People, Government)
"I give no more paroles to British officers."
- Christopher Gadsden
"I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust."
- Christopher Gadsden
(Related: Trust, Liberty)
"If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it."
- Christopher Gadsden
(Related: Acceptance, Country, Credit, Loss, Office, Reputation)
"It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending."
- Christopher Gadsden
(Related: Thought, Feelings, May, Will)
"My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature."
- Christopher Gadsden
(Related: Nature, Act, American, Cause, Human nature, Liberty, Opinion)
"No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself."
- Christopher Gadsden
(Related: America, Congress, First, Man, Support)
"The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords."
- Christopher Gadsden
(Related: Rights)
"The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage."
- Christopher Gadsden
(Related: Age, Life, Present)
"And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business."
- Christopher Gadsden
(Related: Business, Devil, Duty, Law)