Geoffrey Fisher Quotes

#1. In one sense what may pass between the pope and myself may be trivialities. In another sense the fact of talking trivialities is itself a portent of great significance. But the pleasantries which we exchange may, as one church leader said, be pleasantries about profundities.

Geoffrey Fisher

#2. If you are an over-thinker, an overachiever, or a perfectionist, then stop thinking and start doing.

Monika Kanokova

#3. You're saying, "What the hell am I gonna do with her?" You're saying, "Shit, did she take her pills?" You're saying, "Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.

Shannon Celebi

#4. This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.

Geoffrey Fisher

#5. Life's too short for cheap beer--or cheap men.

Daryl Anderson

#6. All I could feel was this warm liquid running down my neck. You automatically think it's blood, it's all in split seconds, so I decided to say I didn't agree with him.

John Prescott

#7. Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

Geoffrey Fisher

#8. There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

Geoffrey Fisher

#9. When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Geoffrey Fisher

#10. In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

Geoffrey Fisher

#11. Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.

Geoffrey Fisher

#12. Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

Madeleine L'Engle

#13. Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

Betty Buckley

#14. I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.

Geoffrey Fisher

#15. I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.

Geoffrey Fisher

#16. Kind words are a gift. They create wealth in the heart.

Jan Chozen Bays

#17. I knew I had the right material and I knew what I was going after.

George Thorogood

#18. Sometimes the best you can do is try not to be one of the bastards

Vikki Wakefield

#19. Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

Geoffrey Fisher

#20. When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

Oliver Goldsmith

#21. I say to you Baptists, "Go on being good Baptists, thinking that you are more right than anybody else." Unless you think it, I have no use for you at all. The Church of England does precisely the same itself.

Geoffrey Fisher

#22. My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

Geoffrey Fisher

#23. There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.

Casey Stengel

#24. I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

Jon Weisman

#25. The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

Geoffrey Fisher

#26. Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

Geoffrey Fisher

#27. Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

Richard Dreyfuss

#28. In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.

James C. Maxwell

#29. In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

Geoffrey Fisher