Sometimes I Just Quotes

#1. You go after crude, rabble-rousing chancers like Ted Haggard, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, rather than sophisticated theologians like Tillich or Bonhoeffer who teach the sort of religion I believe in.

Richard Dawkins

#2. There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, "why?" is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is the challenge of unbelief and rebellion.

Elisabeth Elliot

#3. I graduated J&W in the top ninety-three percent of my class, and I would have graduated higher, but I flunked gravy. My gravy had lumps in it, and that pretty much sums up my life so far. Not that it's been all bad; more that it hasn't been entirely smooth.

Janet Evanovich

#4. In 1945, the president of Dartmouth justified limits on Jewish enrollment by invoking the mission of the school: Dartmouth is a Christian College founded for the Christianization of its students.

Michael J. Sandel

#5. All I remembered clearly was that one moment, that one simple word that would change my life forever.
Yes.

Julie Kagawa

#6. Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

Steve Jobs

#7. You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.

Anjem Choudary

#8. Sometimes things are more complicated than they seem. Sometimes what you see isn't so black and white.

Victoria H. Smith

#9. Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

Joan Larkin

#10. The evolution of Parkour sort of happens with time and age as you change, and the body has a certain memory of Parkour. There is a sort of thing that remains intrinsic, but then the choreography will adapt to whatever the necessity of each particular film needs.

David Belle

#11. We all have an eraser incorporated within us, a delete key, but we forget how to use it. Ho'oponopono helps us to remember the power that we have to choose between erasing (letting go) or reacting, being happy or suffering. It is only a matter of choice in every moment of our lives.

Mabel Katz

#12. Ageing. We laugh about it, and we groan about it. We resist it, but we cant't stop it. And with the chuckles and wrinkles come serious thoughts and questions about what happens when we die. Is death when we go to sleep? Or is death when we finally wake up?

Max Lucado

#13. Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.

Benjamin Carson

#14. There is a Japanese word for things made more beautiful by use, that bear the evidence of their own making, or the individuating marks of time's passage: a kind of beauty not immune to time but embedded in it.

Mark Doty