William Daniel Phillips Quotes

I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.

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• Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Control
  • Gun

• Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Heart
  • Reality

• In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Together
  • Political

• I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Lose

• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Prayer

• During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Money
  • War
  • Political

• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Up
  • Age
  • Giving

• A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

  

  Raj Kapoor
  • Parents
  • Man
  • Woman

• I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Done
  • Training

• What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Success

• History proves that the white man is a devil.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Man
  • Devil

• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Moral
  • Honor

• I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • You
  • Play
  • Stage

• I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Children
  • Art

• All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Friends
  • Want
  • Boyfriend

• I'm, like, the biggest fan ever of 'Arrested Development.' To be a part of it is incredible. Same goes for 'Parenthood.'

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Like
  • Same
  • Development

• To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Believe
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Up
  • Team
  • Focus

• I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.

  

  William Daniel Phillips
  • Believe
  • Atheism
  • Consistent