Vandersteen 5a Quotes

#1. You show me a polluter, I'll show you a subsidy. I'll show you a fat cat using political clout to escape the discipline of the free market and force the public to pay his production costs.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#2. The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.

John Frame

#3. For me, making films is like being on vacation, it's a nice walk. But theatre is like mountaineering. You never know whether you're going to fall off or make it to the top.

Isabelle Huppert

#4. It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#5. Well, Tommy, he said, I wish you and yours every joy in life, old chap, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you. And that's the wish of a sincere friend, an old friend. You know that?

James Joyce

#6. While you are busy eyeing the progress of others, you lose sight of your own opportunities. Handle your own business and get your personal affairs in order. Paying too much attention to someone else's blessings will ultimately cost you your own.

Carlos Wallace

#7. We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.

Adoniram Judson

#8. I got Oedipus off the incest charge
technicality, of course
he didn't know it was his mother at the time.

Jasper Fforde

#9. Paranoia's the assassin's bedmate,

Steven Erikson

#10. I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.

Randy Moss

#11. If my day, week or year is going badly, I need not ask of each negative episode or situation whether it had racial overtones.

Peggy McIntosh

#12. There is a cold war on the go. America and Russia are competing for the hearts and minds of Indians, Iraquies, Nigerians; scholarships to universities are among the inducements they offer.

J.M. Coetzee

#13. Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

James Arthur Ray

#14. The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

Socrates

#15. Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

Joanna Lumley