The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church… — Paul Billheimer Copy Share Image
Presidents at the end of their second term - Reagan with the Iran-contra affair, Clinton with Monica Lewinsky - often find they… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
That term, 'human rights', makes me ill.Human rights are only for 'humans', therefore for the West. And for the rest of the… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Instead of feeling like there's two or three of us in this town of hostile crackers, I'm in a big church filled… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original… — Alfred H. Barr, Jr Copy Share Image
A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Even under the British there were hostile groups. There were clashes. But, as we found out later, these were clashes provoked by… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
It is easy to speak words of love, or to meditate lovingly upon those people with whom you are in harmony. But… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
Watching first nights, though I've seen quite a few by now, is never any better. It's a nerve-racking experience. It's not a… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system.… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
We must not disguise from ourselves that we go to found a city among strangers and enemies, and he who undertakes such… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one… — Abe Fortas Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's mother-in-law might be moving into the White House with him. Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The immediate reviews were very hostile, but they didn't bother me-I had the attitude that I was right. The poor guys who… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
Liberty of thought soon shrivels without freedom of expression. Nor can truth be pursued in an atmosphere hostile to the endeavor or… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
