Lily Tomlin Quotes

Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying - but when God talks to us, we're said to be schizophrenic?

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• You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'

  

  RaeLynn
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Great
  • God
  • Soul

• He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
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  • Paradise

• We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Night

• Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
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  • Why

• I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Work
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  • Why

• The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Men
  • Happy

• Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money.' I think that's a bit of why they were glorified.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Money
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• Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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  • Act

• Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • People
  • Loved
  • Explanation

• I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• It is often said of me - some intend it as a compliment, others as a complaint - that I write about a single subject: the Holocaust. I have no quarrel with that. Why shouldn't I accept, with certain qualifications, the place assigned to me on the shelves of libraries?

  

  Imre Kertesz
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• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Man
  • Sun

• Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid. Well, now I'm ready to go to Heaven and be with Jesus, and...hey? Hey, what's this? Oh, God it feels like a man's DICK IN MY ASS! Oh, GOD!!! I'M DEAD!!! Oh, you mean life keeps on fucking you even after you're dead? Oh, it never ends! OH! OHHH!!!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• Without a doubt, God led me to your message because I had never been to your Web site before. Please forgive me for letting the highlights of your message speak through me to our ladies, without getting your permission. You were a blessing to them and to me.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • God
  • Message
  • Website

• Then lies him down the lubber fiend,And stretched out all the chimney's length,Basks at the fire his hairy strength.

  

  John Milton
  • Fire
  • Lies

• I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

  

  Mathew Baynton
  • Family
  • School
  • Kids

• Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Error
  • Religions

• Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying - but when God talks to us, we're said to be schizophrenic?

  

  Lily Tomlin
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