Christmann Lubbock Quotes

#1. War on Drugs...will only be won when we point our thumbs at ourselves and ask the hard question: "How am I contributing to this problem?

David W. Earle

#2. We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

James Larkin

#3. My view is that you never argue with the customer about your name.

Bob Kerrey

#4. Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

N. T. Wright

#5. Me, me, me! Mine, mine, mine! I'm right, I'm right, I'm right. What's in it for me? How do I use this? How do I take advantage of it? This is the way of the ego. Own this within yourself and you will begin to release yourself from it.

Leonard Jacobson

#6. A screen ... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#7. Election is an act of God before creation in which He chooses some people to be saved, not on account of any foreseen merit in them, but only because of His sovereign good pleasure.

Wayne Grudem

#8. freshly dead popes are struck thrice on the forehead with a special silver hammer.

Mary Roach

#9. Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of whack. Suddenly, you're treated in a manner befitting someone who is actually an important person.

Ben Affleck

#10. I'm just saying things never get so bad we can't do something to make them better.

Orson Scott Card

#11. Food is a part of our contract with life.

Bryant McGill

#12. The general's daughter? We'd be fools not to. You talk about her as if she's made of spun glass. Know what I see? Steel.

Marie Rutkoski

#13. I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me.

Tom Ford

#14. Life is unfair, uncaring, and painful,

Jim Butcher

#15. I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

Charles Bukowski