Bill Konigsberg Quotes

Sitting in a church makes you no more of a Christ follower than sitting in a Ford dealership makes you a Mustang owner.

Bill Konigsberg

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• If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Women
  • Love

• Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Communication

• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Political

• Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • America
  • Honor

• I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Sometimes
  • Hands
  • Happen

• We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • End
  • Christ
  • Final

• You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Know
  • Judge
  • Writer

• On TV, if you fluff your lines, nobody gives a toss. But if you fluff a penalty in the World Cup, well - we all know how much that matters.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Know
  • Nobody

• I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Myself
  • Week

• Kibbeh comes in all forms, but most feature bulgur and meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Most
  • Meat
  • Feature

• A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Truth

• We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Clouds

• It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity - of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• Do the best job I can, not hurt our fellow beings on this planet, that's my religion.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Job
  • Hurt

• Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing

• There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

  

  Linda Tripp
  • House

• As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Knows

• Wenn mancher sich nicht verpflichtet fühlte, das Unwahre zu wiederholen, weil er’s einmal gefügt hat, fo wären es ganz andere Leute geworden.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.

  

  Caspar David Friedrich
  • Light
  • Eye
  • Spirit

• Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and back surfaces. In this intuitively easy analysis, the 'front surface' and 'back surface' arrows are mathematical constructions that give us the right answer, whereas .... a more accurate representation of what is really going on: partial reflection is the scattering of light by electrons inside the glass.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Easy
  • Construction
  • Representation

• Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.

  

  David Bosch
  • Work
  • Church
  • Missionary

• Sitting in a church makes you no more of a Christ follower than sitting in a Ford dealership makes you a Mustang owner.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Church
  • Christ
  • Dealership