Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes
The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
-
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
-
I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
-
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
-
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
-
Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
-
I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.
-
Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
-
I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.
-
What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?
-
The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.
-
Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.
-
I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
-
My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
-
There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.
-
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
-
Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.
-
There's Batman, there's Superman, there's Wonder Woman. She's the full-blown real deal.
-
The first day of 'Bling Ring,' I was so nervous and freaking out. I'm a know-it-all and was going into a situation where I couldn't predict what would happen.
-
Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.
-
The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.
-
Sometimes, I don't notice I'm singing.
-
The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.
