I’m not as Catholic as I used to be. I find that I can’t believe in a God who would punish anyone for the way he made them. A God who punishes is something mankind created as a way to hurt and control one another. God isn’t like that. God is better than that, better than us.


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Magazine photography is the mural painting of modern times.
GENE THORNTON
I still feel like we have to get that win at Miami.
AL THORNTON
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your ...
THORNTON WILDER
I want everybody to see Pearl on CBS Sunday Morning. I promised Pearl that I would try and get this ...
ROBERT THORNTON
The gap is there. Where it really compounds is where there is a racial and a gender gap. That's what...
GREGORY THORNTON
I haven't really felt sorry for myself; I haven't really been mad or anything. I've just felt disapp...
BRIAN THORNTON
One guy asked me why we wouldn't just want to tear down the Dome because it harbors so many bad memo...
DOUG THORNTON
It happened so quick. We turned the ball over, they made threes on the other end, and just like that...
AL THORNTON
Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequent...
BONNELL THORNTON
There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts ...
ELIZABETH THORNTON
One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that def...
ELIZABETH THORNTON
The key to transforming mental models is to interrupt the automatic responses that are driven by the...
ELIZABETH THORNTON
Our brains have the ability to reorganize themselves by forming new neural connections throughout ou...
ELIZABETH THORNTON
Everybody has a right to their own troubles.
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We've gotten good pressure. That's not a question. Teams know that. Some of the pressure we've had h...
JOHN THORNTON
We talked a lot about mechanics. Being tall, when something mechanical can go wrong, it goes wrong i...
MATT THORNTON
From Day 1, I just played real well with Cheech. You don't plan for something like this. These two a...
JOE THORNTON
I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great works at some moment every day
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A living is made, Mr. Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year. Yes, s...
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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
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The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive min...
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But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human ...
THORNTON WILDER
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home
THORNTON WILDER
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from th...
THORNTON WILDER
I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal
THORNTON WILDER
An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
THORNTON WILDER
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith t...
THORNTON WILDER
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your p...
THORNTON WILDER
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder
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The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.
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Usually you take a penalty because you're a little bit tired or lazy and you're out of position. Ron...
SCOTT THORNTON
It's unbelievable. All these big oak trees are just uprooted, everything is brown and the waterline ...
DOUG THORNTON
We've been playing well in the east. We've been playing this way the last little while.
JOE THORNTON
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
THORNTON WILDER
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alleviation?
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And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all t...
THORNTON WILDER
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I'v...
THORNTON WILDER
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sove...
THORNTON WILDER
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choo...
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Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterd...
THORNTON WILDER
One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with...
THORNTON WILDER
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference . . . and fin...
THORNTON WILDER
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
THORNTON WILDER
I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in...
THORNTON WILDER
There's nothing like mixing with a woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense
THORNTON WILDER
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
THORNTON WILDER
Yes. Now you know. Now you know. That's what it was to be alive, to move about in a cloud of ignoran...
THORNTON WILDER
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of ...
THORNTON WILDER
The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which ...
THORNTON WILDER
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
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