Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dorothy L. Sayers

The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.

Bill Gates

Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.

P. J. O'Rourke

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

Elayne Boosler

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

Seth Godin

The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money

Penn Jillette

When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Charles Peguy

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Elbert Hubbard

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Ludwig von Mises

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

Al Seckel

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

Calvin Coolidge

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Clint Eastwood

I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.

Clint Eastwood

Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone