Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs. — Kerry Cohen Copy Share Image
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony...” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts — Brooks Robinson Copy Share Image
Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in… — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image
I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
There will be consequences for this, he thought. You can't alter time and not be affected. But whatever the consequences are, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
As far as actually setting up colonies of people who would live their whole lives in space, I think we're a long… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Courage--judgment--integrity--dedication--these are the historic qualities of the Bay Colony and the Bay State…And these are the qualities which, with God's help, this… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Homosexuality was invented by a straight world dealing with its own bisexuality. But finding this difficult, and preferring not toadmit it, it… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Well, it seems insane,” Bob finally said. “But it comes from our Puritan ancestors. Who were kind of insane, when you think… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its… — John Noble Wilford Copy Share Image
Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small,… — Patrick Geddes Copy Share Image
Whenever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“It was as Hester said, in regard to the unwanted jollity that brightened the faces of the people. Into this festal season… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from… — George Mason Copy Share Image
In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being. — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
What we've found is a whole new pattern of change that we hadn't thought of before. They changed their attitude toward the… — William M. Kelso Copy Share Image
The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
“The fish is something to make me settle in one place. According to church colony doctrine, it’s why men marry women and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony.… — Cyra McFadden Copy Share Image
Hollywood is the sort of town where you wake up in the morning and look out to see if it's still there.… — Pamela Moore Copy Share Image
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