Building Zion Quotes

#1. Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

Edouard Manet

#2. Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit -
It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

Robert W. Service

#3. I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir," she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them for me.

Sara Sheridan

#4. Marx saw that capitalism is a wasteful, irrational system, a system which controls us when we should be controlling it. That insight is still valid; but we can now see that the construction of a free and equal society is a more difficult task than Marx realized.

Peter Singer

#5. Part of creating the future is to follow this consumer. Women are working; we've moved the store to the desk. Now though, she's is in the back of a cab with her iPhone or her iPad, she's tweeting an outfit that her friend is wearing and desperately trying to find out where she got her shoes online.

Natalie Massenet

#6. The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

Russell Baker

#7. I find that when you open on a group of people sitting down and talking, the scene sits down with them. The best antidote for that is an entrance. Begin the scene with someone entering, and somehow it's more interesting.

Howard Hawks

#8. May the peace of God be with all people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Thus the slogan should be reversed: Catholics taught the world what music is supposed to sound like, and, more importantly, what it is supposed to mean.

Richard Morris

#10. One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.

Dan Pearce

#11. The redemption of Zion is more than the purchase or recovery of lands, the building of cities, or even the founding of nations. It is the conquest of the heart, the subjugation of the soul, the sanctifying of the flesh, the purifying and ennobling of the passions.

Orson F. Whitney

#12. Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#13. I love everything Minnesota.

Seann William Scott

#14. The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.

James Russell Lowell

#15. I think perfect dates involve walking a lot, and not a bunch of driving around in cars. Ideally, you can walk together and go to a restaurant, and then walk from there to another nice place - this is, I guess, because of really great dates that I've had with my wife here in Portland.

James Mercer

#16. A city without road humps is like a world without maps.

Kalyan C. Kankanala

#17. A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

Rene Magritte

#18. After all these years, almost 30 years later, whenever I'm on the street, someone will call out, 'Who you gonna call?'

Ernie Hudson