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

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

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Job
  • Mistakes
  • Soviet Union

• Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?

  

  Amy Hempel
  • Good
  • Question

• Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • Up
  • Comedy

• What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Believe
  • Moral
  • Christianity

• 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