Drinking Bout Quotes

#1. Some believers, as though from a drinking bout, go so far as to oppose themselves and alter the original text of the gospel three or four or several times over, and change its character to enable them to deny difficulties in the face of criticism. (Against Celsus 2, 27)

Bart D. Ehrman

#2. If I had been a more realistic and reasonable person, if I had not been twenty-one and still fooling myself, I would have said, Wait.

Amy Bloom

#3. Real power has fullness and variety. It is not narrow like lightning, but broad like light. The man who truly and worthily excels in any one line of endeavor, might also under a change of circumstances, have excelled in some other line. Power is a thing of solidity and wholeness.

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

#4. The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

Wynonna Judd

#5. What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.

Thierry Henry

#6. With my son, I feel that he's a completely spiritual being. It's not spiritual as the same way of the people in my generation, but we grew up in the consciousness that spirituality was something sort of separate from life.

Jai Uttal

#7. I've been dreaming of winning gold medal in the Olympics.

Kim Yuna

#8. He had thought love as a policy made a lot of sense for those who could manage it, and anyone who could manage it belonged in religious life. The rest of us have to struggle with more ordinary love, the common or garden variety: love as a crippling condition. Love as a syndrome.

Gregory Maguire

#9. I'm nice, and I show up on time.

Lauren Graham

#10. A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#11. The surrealism of my pictures was nothing but the real made eerie by vision. I was trying to express reality, for there is nothing more surrealist.

Brassai

#12. I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.

Amos Oz

#13. Spread peace and love. Be the bearer of the light of love.

Debasish Mridha

#14. That disgusts me.

Friedrich Nietzsche