Alex Comfort Quotes

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

Alex Comfort

• May

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• Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • May
  • Sometimes
  • Famous

• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • May
  • Said
  • Living

• My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • May
  • American
  • Body

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• May books spread the world over!

  

  Yann Martel
  • World
  • May
  • Books

• Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • May

• In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • May
  • Truth

• I may look like a laid-back Hawaiian, but I'm 240 pounds, and when I'm walking around that kitchen, you don't want to get in my way.

  

  Ippy Aiona
  • May
  • Want
  • Walking

• We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Strong
  • Progress

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • May
  • Hope

• Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • May
  • Book
  • Society

• There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • American
  • Religion

• I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Famous

• We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • May
  • Earth
  • Explore

• Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Great
  • God
  • May

• Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Time
  • May
  • Fun

• I've heard, 'May the Force be with you' about as many times as, 'Hey, how you doing?'

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • May

• I'm a real foodie.

  

  Pippa Middleton
  • Real

• The notion that we would market devices that would allow someone to place themselves beyond the law troubles me a lot.

  

  James Comey
  • Law

• Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye. Phones are put away and there are no interruptions. And what you do is concentrate on each other. Listen to what they have to say, and let them listen to you.

  

  Kay Robertson
  • Time
  • Together

• The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • God
  • Money
  • Power

• We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

  

  Alex Comfort
  • May