Blake Farenthold Quotes
Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs - I really think that's something that needs to be considered.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
-
Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
-
It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
-
I always like to sing barefoot.
-
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
-
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
-
I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
-
I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
-
A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
-
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
-
At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.
-
Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.
-
Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.
-
A man must serve his time to every tradeSave censure - critics are ready-made.
-
Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.
-
I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.
-
One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.
-
In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.
-
I ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.
-
If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.
-
As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
-
Belts are immaterial. What's material to me is who have you fought, how many rounds have you fought, how many fights have you fought.
-
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
-
Drug testing for recipients of various welfare programs - I really think that's something that needs to be considered.
