Bob Garfield Quotes
What passes for patriotism is now largely measured by the flag pins in our lapels and the mouthing of pride and faith in our soldiers, sailors, and aviators. Having long since lost track of the precepts of American democracy, we've devolved into a cult of military, with its own blind faith and liturgy...
Bob Garfield
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I would say, we can't allow ourselves to be frightened into not living our lives, and I think that we have to keep going and we have to keep going with the faith that thing will get better … And things will get better when we make them better.
Oprah Winfrey
These voices blame the Middle East's only democracy for the region's extremism. They offer the false promise that abandoning a stalwart ally is somehow the path to strength. It is not, it never has been, and it never will be.
Barack Obama
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
Edith Sitwell
The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.
Charles Spurgeon
We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.
Henry David Thoreau
If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.
Lloyd Alexander
Without faith that there's a world beyond the one we live in, I don't see how it's possible to get rid of angst.
Robert Smith
Siouxsie and the Banshees
With regard to my case, the concept has been called a 'sign of the apocalypse' and listed under the News of the Weird.
Tyler Hamilton
I always wanted to be tall, but I'm not, OK?
Cheryl Ladd
It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.
Paz de la Huerta
Music is a creative endeavor so I feel the business around it should be creative, too. One size doesn't have to fit all.
David Ellefson
What passes for patriotism is now largely measured by the flag pins in our lapels and the mouthing of pride and faith in our soldiers, sailors, and aviators. Having long since lost track of the precepts of American democracy, we've devolved into a cult of military, with its own blind faith and liturgy...
Bob Garfield
