Oliver Ellsworth Quotes
The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.
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Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in Kansas.
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I know a lot of artists say this, but it's hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There's no tricks.
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We are the result of the stimulus we receive.
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Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.
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The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.
