Jonathan Swift Quotes

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

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• Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Help
  • Me
  • Said

• If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Words
  • Faith
  • End

• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • May
  • Said
  • Living

• Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Different
  • Me
  • Rest

• I have faith in my imperfections!

  

  Dana Delany
  • Faith
  • Imperfections

• I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.

  

  Iman
  • Good
  • Look
  • Said

• As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Why
  • Philosophy
  • Said

• Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Faith
  • Politics
  • Unity

• I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Faith

• Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Faith
  • Bible
  • Principle

• Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Faith
  • Identity
  • Young

• It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Faith
  • Religion

• Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Care

• Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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  • Inside

• Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Life
  • Political
  • Faith

• I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Book
  • Said
  • Event

• In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Judge

• As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to take a certain distance from it.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • World
  • Pain
  • Understanding

• Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movement

• It's up to me if I decide to do what I think is right.

  

  Ben Kweller
  • Think
  • Right
  • Decide

• Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Faith
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