Lysander Spooner Quotes

If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Day
  • Public

• I just want to do my job.

  

  Ma Long
  • Job
  • Want
  • Just

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Cool

• For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Why
  • Job
  • Day

• I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Religious

• I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Use
  • Boots
  • Edmonton

• No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Reality
  • Fall

• I would love to work with Matt Damon.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Grow
  • Cost

• Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Believe
  • Small
  • Amazing

• Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Care
  • Gay

• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • I Can
  • Train
  • Bed

• There's a slight problem with the majority counsel's epiphany as it has been passed down to the managers and then to you.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Problem
  • Managers
  • Epiphany

• How great in number are the little minded men.

  

  Plautus
  • Great
  • Men

• Without peanut butter, I might starve.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Might
  • Peanuts

• There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Writing
  • Freedom
  • Know

• When I read history, I [see] what typically happens to presidents and the other party during tumultuous times and how people react when the economy is collapsing and they're losing their homes, losing their pensions - it sort of tracks, what ended up happening, because some of that is human nature.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Men
  • Mind