Pauline Phillips Quotes

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

Pauline Phillips

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• What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Heart
  • Fun
  • Soul

• As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Long
  • Want
  • Health

• I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Street

• You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Home
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • True
  • Language
  • Symbolism

• Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Country
  • America
  • Like

• We are all born mad. Some remain so.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Funny
  • Mad
  • Born

• Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • Health
  • Safety

• I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Present
  • Musicians
  • Limits

• In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Dark

• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Political

• You can't hit what you can't see.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • You
  • See
  • Hit

• I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Religion
  • Ego
  • Losing

• I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Life
  • College
  • Theatre

• The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Me
  • Cool

• It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Real
  • Nice

• You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • World
  • Small
  • Wish

• Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Life
  • Dream

• The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

  

  James Mackintosh
  • Wise

• He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Analysis
  • Suffered
  • He

• When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Fear

• A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

  

  Pauline Phillips
  • Church