Churchman Quotes

#1. As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

Ronald Blythe

#2. Dr. Manton taught my youth to yawn, and prepared me to be a High-Churchman, that I might never hear him read nor read him more.

Henry Bolingbroke

#3. Love and meekness, lord,
Become a churchman better than ambition:
Win straying souls with modesty again,
Cast none away.

William Shakespeare

#4. It is the duty, therefore, of the eloquent churchman, when he is trying to persuade the people about something that has to be done, not only to teach, in order to instruct them; not only to delight, in order to hold them; but also to sway, in order to conquer and win them.

Augustine Of Hippo

#5. To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.

Washington Irving

#6. Keep up your patient's spirits by music of viols and ten-stringed psaltery, or by forged letters describing the death of his enemies, or by telling him he has been elected to a bishopric, if a churchman.

Henri De Mondeville

#7. A man may sink by such slow degrees that, long after he is a devil, he may go on being a good churchman or a good dissenter and thinking himself a good Christian.

George MacDonald

#8. There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

Evelyn Waugh

#9. I like the church, I like a cowl,
I love a prophet of the soul;
And on my heart monastic aisles
Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles;
Yet not for all his faith can see,
Would I that cowled churchman be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Mr. Bates was sober, with that manly, British, churchman-like sobriety which can carry a few glasses of grog without any perceptible clarification of ideas.

George Eliot

#11. You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

Mitt Romney

#12. If I can't be me and be accepted and loved for that, then what's the point?

Bronagh Gallagher

#13. You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.

Donovan

#14. Happily ever after?"
"If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.

Nora Roberts

#15. The promises you make on your mother's deathbed are promises that are absolute; they're titanium. There's no way you're breaking them. I promised my mother that I would take care of my brother. That I would look after him. I kept my word. I did it the best way I could. By leaving.

Jenny Han

#16. Kitty, if only you knew how I sometimes boil under so many gibes and jeers. And I don't know how long I shall be able to stifle my rage. I shall just blow up one day. Still,

Anne Frank

#17. In spite of the extraordinary outpouring of totally and partially new products and new ways of doing things that we are witnessing today, by far the greatest flow of newness is not innovation at all. Rather, it is imitation.

Theodore Levitt

#18. I've fallen into your life, like a red ROSE from another world.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#19. Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#20. The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.

C. West Churchman

#21. Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools.

Marion Dane Bauer

#22. I haven't been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake.

Bob Hudson

#23. Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.

Irvine Welsh

#24. It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption

C. West Churchman

#25. We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

C. West Churchman

#26. Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection [of information]. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.

C. West Churchman

#27. Our shouting is louder than our actions,
Our swords are taller than us,
This is our tragedy.
In short
We wear the cape of civilisation
But our souls live in the stone age

Nizar Qabbani

#28. There were more problems with solitude than just being horny and bored. If you didn't have anyone to talk to for days on end, you didn't have anyone to let you know whether you were going nuts or not.

Tad Williams

#29. You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled for the labours of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers.

John Smith