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

• My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Life
  • Great
  • Heart

• Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Beauty
  • Mercy
  • Sight

• I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

  

  Beck
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Personality

• "The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Art
  • History
  • Philosophy

• I can't really sit around and talk with people who believe that the Bible is the way it happened, because that's man-made. I'm a writer, too; that's how I look at the Bible. Like, 'I could've written a better version than that,' you know? At least a more interesting one, and then maybe more people would go to church. I could definitely do a revamp.

  

  John Prine
  • Believe
  • Interesting
  • Church

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

  

  James A. Garfield