Top 100 Oswald Quotes
#1. If I told what I knew about his relationship with Oswald, he might spend the rest of his career freezing his ass off in Fargo.
Stephen King
#2. I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.
Patti Davis
#3. There were records, but Oswald was not regarded as dangerous.
Jim Bishop
#4. I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.
John Sherman Cooper
#5. John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald meet in hell and team up to assassinate Satan.
John Hodgman
#6. OSWALD: [Repeats, in a dull, toneless voice.] The sun. The sun.
Henrik Ibsen
#7. I was just down in Dallas, Texas ... the Assassination Museum ... it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.
Bill Hicks
#8. Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off. Tenacity is the supreme effort of a man refusing to believe that his hero is going to be conquered ... Remain spiritually tenacious Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Beth Moore
#9. There is no evidence of any kind except that is directed toward Oswald.
John Sherman Cooper
#10. To do even the most humbling tasks to the glory of God takes the Almighty God Incarnate working in us. Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
#11. From a will: And to my communist nephew Oswald, I leave the sum of 10,000 pounds - to be shared equally with his fellow Britishers.
John Carpenter
#12. There was no testimony of conspiracy - Oswald's efforts to get in touch with the Soviets and with the Cuban Fair Play groups in New York were rebuffed, rebuffed at every step.
John Sherman Cooper
#13. guilt. The first announcement of Oswald as the lone assassin,
Barry Ernest
#14. You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.
Viggo Mortensen
#15. But "common sense is not faith," Oswald Chambers had written, "and faith is not common sense.
Jan Karon
#16. They could hold him in the murder of Officer Tippit. The evidence was far from overwhelming but it was sufficient. For Oswald, the real
Jim Bishop
#17. The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
Don DeLillo
#18. OSWALD: For I'm not so afraid of death--though I should like to live as long as I can.
MRS. ALVING: Yes, yes, Oswald, you must!
OSWALD: But this is so unutterably loathsome.
Henrik Ibsen
#19. The assassin's bullet: Lee Harvey Oswald created a constitutional space for decisive legislative action, opening a path for Lyndon Johnson to save the civil rights revolution at the cost of destroying the New Deal coalition.
Bruce A. Ackerman
#20. All schools have their skeletons. St Oswald's is no exception. Most of the time, we try our best to keep them in the closet. But this time, the only recourse we have is to throw open all the closets, light as many bulbs as we can and catch the vermin as it comes out.
Joanne Harris
#22. The thing that awakens the deepest well of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven sin." - Oswald Chambers
Randy Alcorn
#23. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.
Jesse Ventura
#24. The work I did on 'Killing Kennedy' was very meticulous and, in some ways, actually tedious. It was hard work because there is so much known about John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. To try to distill that into a clear narrative that's interesting and tells two great stories was a real challenge.
Kelly Masterson
#25. We look for visions of heaven," Oswald Chambers had written, "and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us." He
Jan Karon
#26. It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.
Jim Garrison
#27. I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.
Bill O'Reilly
#28. The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. - Oswald Chambers L
John Bevere
#29. we know Oswald did it because he bought a coke instead of a dr. pepper.
Raul Casso
#30. Britains still commemorate the Battle of Cable Street in London. There are still pop songs in Britain that reference Sir Oswald Mosley and his black shirts.
Rachel Maddow
#31. I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.
Steven Soderbergh
#32. Very curious, at the age of about 13 years, Oswald began to study Marxism and he kept on in his writing, affirming that he was a Marxist. Probably he did want to show himself as a great, supreme Marxist.
John Sherman Cooper
#33. You have to be the nourishment for other people's souls until they learn to feed on God. Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
#34. She said I would find Oswald out in the grounds, and such is a mother's love that she spoke as if that were a bit of a boost for the grounds and an inducement to go there.
P.G. Wodehouse
#35. Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.
Tobias Hill
#36. I had seen other comic friends of mine go to indie labels. Like David Cross and Pat Oswald went to Subpop, and Subpop didn't make total sense for me, but the metal version of that did. So I made a small list with Metal Blade, Prosthetic and couple of other labels, and Relapse was one of them.
Brian Posehn
#37. It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.
Robert Dallek
#38. William McKinley Oswald was my high school football coach. He was a great coach and had a profound influence on my life. But I think he could have learned his method of motivating players from an army drill sergeant.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#39. My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life. Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
#40. The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles) there is bound to be such duplication.
Ollie Johnston
#41. enough. Still, the swirls which could be defined appeared to match the ones taken from Oswald's left hand tonight. The photos were reversed, and the eyes of the men scanned them again. It wasn't the best of evidence, but both appeared to be made from the same hand.
Jim Bishop
#42. We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley ... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Mussolini or Hitler.
William Joyce
#43. Oswald Chambers says, Intellectual darkness comes through ignorance; spiritual darkness comes because of something I do not intend to obey.
Stormie O'martian
#44. I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that?
Denis Leary
#45. Maybe we are all somebody's devil," Oswald says. "Maybe even me and you.
Matthew Dicks
#46. I'm sorry for the randomness of what I wrote, Mr. Oswald. There's been a lot to absorb.'
Without looking up, he says, 'Never apologize for writing your truth, Mr. Fink. There are no right or wrong answers.
Wendy Mass
#47. I think the public can t accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy. They don t want to believe the world is that chaotic. It is.
Robert Dallek
#48. Legend has it that Walter was taking a walk with his father one day and passed by a church where Oswald directed his young son's attention to a memorial. "There's a name you will never remember," Oswald commented as he kept walking. Walter paused to read:
Patricia Cornwell
#49. Oswald is an interesting character. Disney lost the rights to him in 1928 to Universal, who was distributing the cartoons and basically handed him over to Walter Lantz.
Warren Spector
#50. Not much ever really comes of commissions, really. The last one that really came up with something truly concrete was the Warren Commission, and for all its good work, most Americans persist in believing that Oswald was working in tandem with the CIA, FBI, Lyndon Johnson, and the John Birch Society.
Christopher Buckley
#51. the Dallas Police Department felt that, in Lee Harvey Oswald, it had a good catch.
Jim Bishop
#52. During the Nuremberg trials, Oswald Pohl, an SS Lieutenant General, ... is shown here explaining how Farben operated such concentration camps as Auschwitz and Buchenwald.
G. Edward Griffin
#53. Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald.
John Sherman Cooper
#54. The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.
Joe Rogan
#55. The only possible way to have full understanding of the teachings of Jesus is through the light of the Spirit of God shining inside us.
Oswald Chambers
#56. The sense of mystery must always be, for mystery means being guided by obedience to Someone Who knows more than I do.
Oswald Chambers
#57. Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
J. Oswald Sanders
#58. The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L
Oswald Chambers
#59. What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.
Palle Oswald
#60. To live a remote, retired, secluded life is the antipodes of spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it. The test of our spirituality comes when we come up against injustice and meanness and ingratitude and turmoil, all of which have the tendency to make us spiritual sluggards.
Oswald Chambers
#61. At any cost, by any road means nothing self-chosen in the way God brings us to the goal.
Oswald Chambers
#62. God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.
Oswald Chambers
#63. Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
Oswald Chambers
#64. Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.
Oswald Chambers
#65. Huge waves that would frighten an ordinary swimmer produce a tremendous thrill for the surfer who has ridden them.
Oswald Chambers
#66. We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not ... What we call the process God calls the end. His purpose is that I depend on Him and His power NOW. It is the process, not the end that is glorifying to God.
Oswald Chambers
#67. Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.
J. Oswald Sanders
#68. Make the determination to abide in Jesus wherever you are now or wherever you may be placed in the future.
Oswald Chambers
#69. Build your hope on Him. No matter how many things seem to be pressing in on you, be determined to push them aside and look to Him. "Look to Me. . .
Oswald Chambers
#70. We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.
Oswald Chambers
#71. If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.
Oswald Chambers
#73. The moral miracle of Redemption is that God can put into me a new disposition whereby I can live a totally new life.
Oswald Chambers
#74. We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.
Oswald Chambers
#75. You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.
Oswald Chambers
#76. The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
Oswald Chambers
#77. In the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart ... It's motto is
" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.
Oswald Chambers
#78. That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.
Alice Oswald
#79. Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking.
Oswald Chambers
#80. If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
Oswald Chambers
#81. It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.
Oswald Chambers
#82. The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.
Oswald Chambers
#83. Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.
Oswald Chambers
#84. The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.
Oswald Chambers
#85. Sometimes there is nothing to obey, the only thing to do is to maintain a vital connection with Jesus Christ, to see that nothing interferes with that.
Oswald Chambers
#86. Do you believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Are you willing to let Him?
Oswald Chambers
#87. Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job where he will do his best.
J. Oswald Sanders
#88. If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.
Oswald Chambers
#89. A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark. It stands waiting for light, which it catches in the close-woven sieves of its leaves.
Alice Oswald
#90. We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
Oswald Chambers
#91. The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.
Oswald Chambers
#92. Death means you stop being. You must agree with God and stop being the intensely striving kind of Christian you have been. We avoid the cemetery and continually refuse our own death. It will not happen by striving, but by yielding to death.
Oswald Chambers
#93. Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
Oswald Chambers
#94. The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.
Oswald Chambers
#95. - Why are you helping me? she asked abruptly. He paused for a moment in thought. Because you need it, he said, and because I can.
Ted Oswald
#96. For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him
Oswald Chambers
#97. If deacons are required to be full of the Spirit, should those who preach and teach the Word of God be any less? Spiritual goals can be achieved only by spiritual people who use spiritual methods.
J. Oswald Sanders
#98. God is not preparing you for anything; obedience is its own end in the purpose of God; be faithful to Him.
Oswald Chambers
#99. Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already ... this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.
Oswald Chambers
#100. If our hopes seem to be experiencing disappointment right now, it simply means that they are being purified.
Oswald Chambers
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