Paula Poundstone Quotes
They're not going to teach science at all. What they do is take the science students down to the lake, tie them in burlap sacks and throw them in. If God thinks they're good science students, they float.
Quotes to Explore
-
For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
-
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
-
I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
-
I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
-
As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
-
We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
-
Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
-
No days off. I'm a workaholic.
-
The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
-
What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future but it's always based on what we have. Then as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas. You know?
-
Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.
-
All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
-
I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
-
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
-
In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
-
When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
-
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
-
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
-
It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.
-
(singing) Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!/
-
Success to your meetings. Future of this country depends on breaking up the land monopoly-it withers the land, depresses wages, destroys independence, and drives millions into dwellings which poison their strength. Godspeed to every effort to put an end to this oppression.
-
They're not going to teach science at all. What they do is take the science students down to the lake, tie them in burlap sacks and throw them in. If God thinks they're good science students, they float.
