People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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SAMUEL BUTLER The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
D. ELTON TRUEBLOOD The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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TERRY PRATCHETT [I felt] Sadness, horrified, disgusted at the conditions people are in.
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SAMUEL CHASE All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
SAMUEL BUTLER We are horrified at this threat,
JAMES BRANDON Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
THORNTON WILDER Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great works at some moment every day
THORNTON WILDER The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the fo...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the fo...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
P.D. OUSPENSKY In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Her...
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H. L. MENCKEN There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as ...
RICHARD M. NIXON The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The students will be looking at how advertising and public relations are practiced in London, and th...
BETH BARNES The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of th...
MILAN KUNDERA Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen...
ROBERT BRESSON Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen...
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR What you're seeing and hearing at the moment is undoubtedly putting your basic democratic feelings t...
KONRAD ADENAUER Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team
EOIN COLFER Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it
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MILAN KUNDERA It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. T...
POPE BENEDICT XVI While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all ...
SAM HARRIS Take a moment to remember those you have lost along the way, and, let them know you thought of them ...
T.R. THRESTON Organizational improvisation ... Research on jazz musicians shows that people don't just pull stuff ...
KATHLEEN TIERNEY For though to smatter ends of Greek
Or Latin be the rhetoric
Of pedants counted, and vain-glor...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) I'm looking at people who are begging for ice and water and (a) presence. I'm seeing the same sort o...
KATE HALE I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspir...
OSWALD CHAMBERS You should not be totally obsessed with pleasing people, it may put your own self-worth at stake. Yo...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA wasting what little breath he did have laughing at himself. Because sometimes, that’s all you coul...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG …when you talk about Mike, you look like a woman who’s talkin’ about a guy she likes. You talk...
KRISTEN ASHLEY We're seeing the kind of hearing loss in younger people that's typically found in aging adults.
DEAN GARSTECKI I think, in general, people just want a new, refreshing voice, and they're hearing that from Kinky.
LAURA STROMBERG Believing that in a wise way it is good to go to church, and that associating with Christians would ...
GERONIMO The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be ...
DAVID HUME The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be ...
DAVID HUME It's your fault, Eeyore. You've never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner o...
A.A. MILNE Tea was good. Tea was possibly the safest drink in the entire Empire. It defied anything untoward.
KATE HARPER The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive, but in spite of their reli...
MARK TWAIN My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.
ANDREW RANNELLS It's really flattering. It is weird, at school the whole day, just hearing people saying my name and...
ERIC MEISTER Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.
- Humb...
NORTON JUSTER (PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH" Love at first sight is a polite phrase used when one wants to fuck a stranger
SHEEJA JOSE We are hearing of people going back to work who were unemployed for awhile and we are seeing (supply...
ANDREW GUCCIONE I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.
TED CRUZ Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.
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NORTON JUSTER There were probably more people at practice than at our games. I know I've never practiced in front ...
GABE NORWOOD A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each o...
ALAN W. WATTS I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like...
SHAWN JOHNSON At Tech, I was working day and night. At least at Butler, I can take a breather and see my family.
BOB LUCAS There was a time when I definitely doubted my skills, doubted whether I could play at the public sch...
MALISA BUMPUS I know there are people who get fearful in the Christian community, but I look at it the other way �...
GLEN ELLIOTT We never doubted ourselves. But at the same time, it is a little bit shocking.
KYLE VISSER Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 The purpose of religion -- at any rate, the Ch...
FREDERICK WARD KATES I don't think it's much to be horrified about. It is abundantly clear that this designer wants to cr...
BO LARSSON Bad Religion has never been about criticizing people who are Christian. But we've always been ab...
GREG GRAFFIN More power to that. I love just hearing Samuel L. Jackson blurt out the F-word every five seconds.
CHRIS ROHAN To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ...
BRENT M. JONES I think people are used to seeing taxes at the end of their receipt.
BILL JENSEN As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western...
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON We are seeing grassroots support at every stop on the Believe in Arkansas Tour this week, and Genera...
ZAC WRIGHT What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to ...
TWYLA THARP When we fall in love at a glance, the question we should ask ourselves (and this would apply to both...
ROSEMARY SULLIVAN You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your e...
TONI MORRISON If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire...
VICTOR HUGO The only thing is "we are humans" and the best thing is "humans were born to make mistakes" .. so ch...
NEHA KOTHARI It seemed to him he had waited an age for some stir of the great grim hush; the life of the town was...
HENRY JAMES A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test
ANUJ SOMANY If you make it clear that you have a busy, interesting life, but that you'd like to fit her in to yo...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE What you are good at, you never do it free!
DEYTH BANGER A person who has got almost all traits and attributes in-common with the people in his circle is jus...
ANUJ SOMANY A man is at his best when he is simply not like rest in all his life's test
ANUJ SOMANY The surrounding environment is the best erudite master to teach us fundamentals laws of nature and b...
ANUJ SOMANY For several moments he did not move from the doorway: he heard the girl’s soft, thin voice rise ab...
JOHN WILLIAMS Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.
STEVE EARLE My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Although people are going to save money on average out-of-pocket costs, the benefit is not ideally s...
DR. WALID GELLAD Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't?
DAVID WONG Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.
NINA DE GRAMONT In Japan there is a saying that . . . just seeing and hearing the form, the manners and the words ...
KAZUO INAMORI In Japan there is a saying that . . . just seeing and hearing the form, the manners and the words ...
KAZUO INAMORI Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed...
G.K. CHESTERTON It was all my fault. I'd let them in, I'd broken my rules, and I was back at square fucking one!"- ...
SAMANTHA YOUNG We're seeing the kind of hearing loss in younger people typically found in aging adults. Unfortunate...
DEAN GARSTECKI Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
WALT WHITMAN Falling in love might be the hardest one, as it encompasses a lot.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler w...
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SAMUEL BUTLER For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy an...
SAMUEL BUTLER Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
SAMUEL BUTLER Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...
SAMUEL BUTLER An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God ha...
SAMUEL BUTLER The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ...
SAMUEL BUTLER To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
SAMUEL BUTLER People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last
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