So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan.

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'

Annie Dillard

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.

Oliver Goldsmith

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

Jean Ingelow

Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

Source Unknown

My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.

Ian MacKaye

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

Francesco Guicciardini

And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Paulo Coelho

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

George S. Patton

Some chase after their dream job, while others CREATE their dream job.

Coco J. Ginger

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Mary Douglas

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Henry David Thoreau