Furoshiki Bag Quotes

#1. I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

Jonathan Swift

#2. Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.

Bob Schieffer

#3. I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

Joyce Carol Oates

#4. If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.

Morley Safer

#5. Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.

Peter Scott

#6. We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.

Martin Luther

#7. You don't have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

Penn Jillette

#8. Just as Huckleberry Finn was published, the first generation of African Americans raised in the postslavery era began to come of age. Among them were people with musical talent, and at first they went to work in minstrelsy, in the well-worn patterns of show business they'd inherited.

Dennis McNally

#9. Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially.

Anthony Lewis

#10. If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain.

Geoffrey Wood

#11. Our dreams draw blood from old sores.

Ntozake Shange

#12. These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. I've done my bit for motion pictures-I've stopped making them.

Liberace

#14. I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

Elmer Bernstein