Coarseness And Civility Quotes

#1. The good thing about TV is that you can still watch the product, even if you're not in charge of it anymore.

Jonathan Klein

#2. You frighten me, when you say there isn't time."
"I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia."
"But it keeps not ending."
"So far, so good.

Orson Scott Card

#3. I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.

Donald Trump

#4. There was a euphoria in the music and the way it was delivered, and as the crowds started to get bigger, it fed off itself until it became less about the band and more about being with all those people jumping up and down, drunk to the music.

Noel Gallagher

#5. Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism.

Nikolai Bukharin

#6. The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. Coarseness occurs in a land where platitude inflames this sense of entitlement to more of almost everything, but less of manners and taste, with their irritating intimations of authority and hierarchy.

George F. Will

#8. You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal.

Frank Zappa

#9. I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.

Walt Alston

#10. Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Leo Tolstoy

#11. 87% of life is just showing up.

Jennifer R. Pournelle

#12. I can connect anything to anything,

Paul Bach-y-Rita

#13. One of the genuine phenomenons over the past four decades has been the liberal community's steadfast insistence that God should be barred from the public sphere. This is not law. It is religious prejudice.

Armstrong Williams

#14. Any punishment is an insult to the crime

Nathan Filer

#15. To remain virile in the light demands the audacity of a mad ignorance: letting oneself catch fire, screaming with joy, expecting death - because of an unknown, unknowable presence; becoming love and blind light oneself, attaining the perfect incomprehension of the sun.

Georges Bataille