Charles Chilton Moore Quotes

The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

Charles Chilton Moore

• Lying
• Slavery
• Atheism
• Murder
• Stealing
• Drunkenness

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• I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Moments

• It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Want
  • Scared

• Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Parents
  • Far
  • Far Away

• I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Always
  • Red
  • Liked

• As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Up
  • Me
  • Difficult

• All the rest of the world uses the word 'electricity.' They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

  

  Mao Zedong
  • World
  • Rest
  • English

• There is a scale of virtues, and it is necessary, if one would mount the higher steps, to begin with the lowest; and the first virtue a man must acquire if he wishes to acquire the others, is that which the ancients called ἐγκράτεια or σωφροσύνη - i.e., self-control or moderation.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Control
  • Wishes

• I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that's interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I've always been in relationships where there's separation.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• Use it or lose it.

  

  Jimmy Connors

• We live in very, very, very dangerous times.

  

  Craig Shirley
  • Live

• I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Up
  • Real
  • Player

• I never try to be too sexy. People know when you're not comfortable and trying to be sexy.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • People
  • Trying
  • Sexy

• In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.

  

  John Cameron
  • Quality
  • Risk

• Weil, so schließt er messerscharfNicht sein kann, was nicht sein darf.

  

  Christian Morgenstern

• The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Government

• I wish theater criticism in this country could be more of a companion piece to the experience than a warning about where not to spend your money.

  

  Anna D. Shapiro
  • Country
  • Money
  • Experience

• Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Choices
  • Ambition
  • Virtue

• One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Forever
  • Doubt
  • Remains

• The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Church

• The Bible, in which these things are taught, favors drunkenness, murder, slavery, lying, stealing and lechery.

  

  Charles Chilton Moore
  • Lying
  • Slavery
  • Atheism