James A. Garfield Quotes

I thank you doctor, but I am a dead man.

James A. Garfield

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• Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • People
  • Church
  • Jesus

• I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Happy
  • Marriage
  • Person

• The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Christian

• With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Party
  • Red
  • Everything

• I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Family
  • Blue
  • New

• When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their hand in class or even going to the doctor. That means that girls do not show up for life when they don't feel good enough or pretty enough. A role model can help girls see beauty as a source of confidence, not anxiety.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I like ground and pound; I don't know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on the ground, but I don't necessarily go for submissions or anything.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Know
  • Like
  • Discipline

• What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Different
  • Done

• Blaming alleged victims is not okay, no matter whose side starts it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Matter
  • Side
  • Okay

• I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Time
  • Children
  • Want

• If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Death

• When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Up
  • Chance

• I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Up
  • Live
  • Fear

• Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Work
  • Sometimes
  • Three

• Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Writer

• The greatest of all prophets was still one of the prophets, and that large interest in the national and social life which had been inseparable from the religion of the prophets was part of his life too. The presumption is that Jesus shared the fundamental religious purpose of the prophets.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Jesus

• I act this way because that's the way I feel like acting. If people like it, fine. If they don't, that's their problem.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People

• In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Thinking

• I've discreetly dated a lot of people - I once dated a billionaire, mostly because it was fun to say, "I'm dating a billionaire," but we did not have the same taste in music, and it was doomed.

  

  Courtney Love
  • People
  • Music
  • Fun

• Everything's a 360 and that's what's so funny about life now, and they're right at that age and I have teenagers now, and I'm like 'Wow I remember when I did that.' Aint nothing new.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Teenager

• I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

  

  Peter Hammill
  • Believe
  • Song
  • Interesting

• The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors coming to my door, besotted with love. I deserved pictures of my face in a thousand expressions, and the warmth of a baby's kick beneath my hand. I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Girl
  • Baby
  • Expression

• I thank you doctor, but I am a dead man.

  

  James A. Garfield