Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.

Billy Corgan

If I had spent fourteen months in a small room with Jesus, I'd want to fist fight with him.

Billy Corgan

I didn't find Jesus. He's been there the whole time.

Billy Corgan

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

Billy Corgan

Jesus teaches us to forgive and I've got to trust him on that one.

Bill Crawford

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

Bill Cosby

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

C. S. Lewis

In a civilization like ours, I feel that everyone has to come to terms with the claims of Jesus Christ upon his life, or else be guilty of inattention or of evading the question.

C. S. Lewis

I believe that there are too many accommodating preachers... Jesus Christ did not say "Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right." The Gospel is something completely different. In fact, it is directly opposed to the world.

Bill Cosby

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

Bill Cosby

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

C. S. Lewis

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks

C. S. Lewis

I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk.

Bill Burr

I've had a great time on the road, I would say shooting guns with a silencer in Jacksonville, Fla.

Bill Burr

Pitbulls are like a gun you can pet.

Bill Hicks

There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue--those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS--but they remain strangely silent...

Bill Hicks

People are bringing shotguns to UFO sightings in Fife, Alabama. I asked a guy, "Why do you bring a gun to a UFO sighting?" Guy said, "Way-ul, we didn' wanna be ab-duc-ted." If I lived in Fife, Alabama, I would be on my hands and knees every night praying for abduction.

Bertrand Russell

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

Berkeley Breathed

Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

Blaise Pascal

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

Camila Alves

I feel vulnerable in a good way. When I talk about my family, I usually have happy tears.

Carroll Quigley

It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.

Dennis Eckersley

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

Aleister Crowley

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

Alex Garland

Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

Aberjhani

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

Cliff Richard

I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund.