If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.


J. B. S. Haldane

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed a...
JACK HANDY
These are human beings; that's kind of a biologically indisputable fact.
MICHAEL SHEEDY
Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen ...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA
It's got to be biologically sound, and we would have to manage the effects on other fisheries. It so...
MIKE CARRIER
If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, a...
FRED WOODWORTH
We, human beings, have a limited number of breaths. We don’t do it endlessly. It is biologically i...
RAYAN BLACK
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
DESMOND MORRIS
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed...
P.D. JAMES
Many people could say things in a cutting way, Nanny knew. But Granny Weatherwax could listen...
TERRY PRATCHETT
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human ...
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM
Put the price only on products and not on a person, either self or anyone, as products need packagin...
ANUJ SOMANY
I would expect the next chapter in this story to be the abandonment of the deal by J&J. For J&J I th...
ELI KAMMERMAN
Not sorry, not calling, not crying
All will pass like smoke of white apple trees
Seized by...
SERGEI YESENIN
Plant at least two apple trees. This provides cross pollination. The trees don't have to be the same...
BRUCE LOWE
Don't ever let anyone put out your light because they are blinded by it.
SHANNON L. ALDER
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by...
ELIE WIESEL
The best prayer one can make to the God is by promising that he will try to become a better human be...
J C GUPTA
The ATM news scenario, ... could complement computerized radio stations. The government, corporation...
RICHARD REEVES
There's nothing better than to be rootless cosmopolitans who seamlessly merge into whatever soci...
TOM REISS
The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
FRIEDRICH DüRRENMATT
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by...
ELIE WEISEL
There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.
COLIN TREVORROW
A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings bu...
MARY LASCELLES
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone wo...
E. M. CIORAN
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the tota...
WILHELM DILTHEY
I love J. K. Rowling. If I could meet any person, I would meet her.
RUTH B
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
BLAISE PASCAL
Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power...
VINOBA BHAVE
We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we...
ADAM RIESS
After Billy Wagner, I'd say Kyle and B. J. Ryan seem to be the overwhelming choice of a lot of teams...
BARRY MEISTER
If merely feeling good could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
WILLIAM JAMES
Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.
MAX BROOKS
human beings are human beings, just treat everyone like that.
HAYLEY WILLIAMS
Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.
CHELY WRIGHT
Easter is…
Joining in a birdsong,
Eying an early sunrise,
Smel...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
We won't be cutting exposed trees anymore. We can't do what we don't have money for.
LIZ COMPTON
If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
JACK WHITEHALL
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
LAO TZU
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's hap...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Bob shaped music in deep and meaningful ways by changing how music could be produced and ultimately,...
MICHAEL ADAMS
We aren't going to be cutting any residential trees. Upon further review of the science, the (U.S. D...
LIZ COMPTON
Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that t...
PATTI SMITH JUST KIDS
An interesting parallel: MLK was targeted by J. Edgar Hoover, an unsavory character. I was targeted ...
DINESH D'SOUZA
If the success or failure of this Planet, and of Human Beings, depended on how I am and what I do; H...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it...
ALAN TURING
The page contained a single, unfamiliar symbol. It looked like a backward S with the diagonals of an...
ERIN KELLISON
I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
RALPH STEADMAN
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyon...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyo...
JOHN F KENNEDY
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyon...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that ...
WARREN E. BURGER
I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings...
SAM HUNT
I think corporate America has realized in large part that human beings by their very nature are greg...
MARK WEISS
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human being...
R. D. LAING
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
He was comforted by one of the simpler emotions which some human beings are lucky enough to experien...
NOEL ANNAN
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experi...
WILLIAM JAMES
So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy re...
J. B. S. HALDANE
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialis...
J. B. S. HALDANE
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can*...
J. B. S. HALDANE
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far t...
J. B. S. HALDANE
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on alm...
J. B. S. HALDANE
Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remember...
J. B. S. HALDANE
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
J. B. S. HALDANE
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good perso...
J. B. S. HALDANE
The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.
J. B. S. HALDANE
Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we c...
J. B. S. HALDANE
Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as ex...
J. B. S. HALDANE
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear t...
J. B. S. HALDANE
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can i...
J. B. S. HALDANE
I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics ...
J. B. S. HALDANE
Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than are the classics.
J. B. S. HALDANE
It is because the doctrine of human unity based on the spiritual oneness of all beings, is not propa...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA
Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
DESMOND MORRIS
Is there any holy beings like human beings?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
He didn't feel any regret or any sorrow. It was just like he was cutting the pig meat at a meat mark...
HARRY WU
If Apple were to devote time and resources to this project, it could definitely be done,
BOB MURPHY
I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.
CHRIS BURKE
We cannot have uncontrolled immigration. However, the folks who are in this country, playing by the ...
JARED HUFFMAN
Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have b...
WALT MOSSBERG
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
CARROT TOP
I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of thei...
MALCOLM X
We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we liv...
CHELSEA MANNING
The sanctity of human life is the most dangerous sophistry ever propagated by philosophy and it is a...
JOHN ASPINALL
Access to the parts themselves is difficult and we would also need to be certified by Apple.
BILL DUNN
Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
If idiots could fly, the sky would be like an airport.
LAURA DAVENPORT
BEING HUMAN IS TREATING OTHERS LIKE HUMAN BEINGS!
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
GORE VIDAL
Human nature. I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.
ELLEN GLASGOW
If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the...
JEFF KOONS
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
BEN WHISHAW
...no cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy t...
PETER S. BEAGLE
If she keeps her nerves under control ... she could easily be the one to upset the apple cart.
ELIZABETH MANLEY
The immigration debate is changing every minute. Enough is enough - immigrants want to be treated li...
GOURI SADHWANI
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. N...
JOHN F. KENNEDY
The significance of a finding that there are other beings who share this universe with us would be a...
CARL SAGAN
I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we...
MARA BROCK AKIL
I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
JAMES SALTER

More J. B. S. Haldane

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy re...
J. B. S. HALDANE
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialis...
J. B. S. HALDANE
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can*...
J. B. S. HALDANE
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far t...
J. B. S. HALDANE
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on alm...
J. B. S. HALDANE
Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remember...
J. B. S. HALDANE
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
J. B. S. HALDANE
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good perso...
J. B. S. HALDANE
The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.
J. B. S. HALDANE
Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we c...
J. B. S. HALDANE
Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as ex...
J. B. S. HALDANE
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear t...
J. B. S. HALDANE
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can i...
J. B. S. HALDANE
I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics ...
J. B. S. HALDANE
Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than are the classics.
J. B. S. HALDANE
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
JOHN B. S. HALDANE
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.
JOHN B. S. HALDANE
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid ...
JOHN B. S. HALDANE
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear t...
JOHN B. S. HALDANE
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far t...
JOHN B. S. HALDANE
There can be no truce between science and religion.
JOHN B. S. HALDANE
The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
JOHN B. S. HALDANE
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can i...
JOHN B. S. HALDANE
Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.
JOHN B. S. HALDANE
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
JOHN B. S. HALDANE
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god...
JOHN B. S. HALDANE
I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific res...
JOHN B. S. HALDANE
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
J.B.S. HALDANE
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good perso...
J.B.S. HALDANE
Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as ex...
J.B.S. HALDANE
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we ...
J.B.S. HALDANE
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid ...
J.B.S. HALDANE
I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
J.B.S. HALDANE
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards thes...
J.B.S. HALDANE
The four stages of acceptance:
1. This is worthless nonsense.
2. This is an interesting, b...
J.B.S. HALDANE
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far t...
J.B.S. HALDANE
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of p...
J.B.S. HALDANE
The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
J.B.S. HALDANE
I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics ...
J.B.S. HALDANE
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that ...
J.B.S. HALDANE
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: i) this is worthless no...
J.B.S. HALDANE
There's no doubt that there's a public backlash against the way campaign money is raised, bu...
J. B. PRITZKER
The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
J. B. PRITZKER
Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nat...
J. B. PRITZKER
I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
J. B. PRITZKER
When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
J. B. PRITZKER
I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
J. B. PRITZKER
It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise......
J. B. PRITZKER
I am a lifelong Democrat.
J. B. PRITZKER
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a...
J. B. PRITZKER
Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to ...
J. B. PRITZKER
In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.
J. B. PRITZKER
None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law scho...
J. B. PRITZKER
Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but wi...
J. B. PRITZKER
Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to...
J. B. PRITZKER
ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
J. B. PRITZKER
You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don&...
J. B. PRITZKER
The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
J. B. PRITZKER
By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so the...
J. B. PRITZKER
Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the ...
J. B. PRITZKER
I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resource...
J. B. PRITZKER
In the World Cup, people of many nations come together for a fierce competition. To field the best t...
J. B. PRITZKER
Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to stan...
J. B. PRITZKER
Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dolla...
J. B. PRITZKER
Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we fa...
J. B. PRITZKER
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing ...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to w...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and des...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk maki...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has d...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell'...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues a...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age,...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do mor...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk pu...
J. B. MORTON
Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
J. B. MORTON
'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the ai...
B. J. NOVAK
I'm a believer in trusting the director.
B. J. NOVAK
Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage...
B. J. NOVAK
I do not have very much office experience.
B. J. NOVAK
There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them...
B. J. NOVAK
The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or pe...
B. J. NOVAK
I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found st...
B. J. NOVAK
Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in ...
B. J. NOVAK
Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
B. J. NOVAK
That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my ...
B. J. DANIELS
During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thoug...
B. J. DANIELS
I look at the NFL and see how the transition has gone at quarterback. I might be coming along at a g...
B. J. DANIELS
When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that ...
J. B. SMOOVE
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cravin...
J. B. YEATS
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
J. B. YEATS
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers wi...
J. B. COLBERT
If you're going to San Francisco, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
J. B. PHILLIPS
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers ...
J. B. COLBERT
In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as e...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of ...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a w...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread befo...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
To be a true comic, you have to have a signature move. You ever watch wrestling? And your favorite w...
J. B. SMOOVE
When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
J. B. SMOOVE
My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
J. B. PRITZKER
I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fi...
J. B. SMOOVE
If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he doe...
J. B. SMOOVE
By legitimizing Iran's nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowin...
J. B. PRITZKER
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age-...
J. B. PRIESTLY
Trump is an anathema to America's democracy and values.
J. B. PRITZKER
I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.
J. B. SMOOVE
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cravin...
J. B. YEATS
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, W. B. ...
J. B. YEATS
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cra...
J. B. YEATS
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk maki...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Commemoration of Rose of Lima, Contemplative, 1617 Those who think God did this almost incredible ...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 It is easy to criticise ...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute ...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Jesus, like all other religious leaders, taug...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936 It should be noted, at...
J. B. PHILLIPS
A man can not be "friends with" God on any other terms than complete obedience to Him, and that incl...
J. B. PHILLIPS
We may with complete detachment study and form a judgement upon a religion, but we cannot maintain o...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle The defenders of the Jargon and phrases of the Church's traditi...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258 There are doubtless many reasons for the degener...
J. B. PHILLIPS
I did not expect to hear that it could be, in an assembly convened for the propagation of Christian ...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877 If our hopes, whatever we...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Feast of All Saints What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not...
J. B. PHILLIPS
So long as a man confines his ideas of Christ to a rather misty hero figure of long ago who died a t...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Our thoughtful observer who is outside th...
J. B. PHILLIPS
God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they ...
J. B. PHILLIPS
The 'outsider' who knows nothing of the mixture of tradition, conviction, honest difference, and hid...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Feast of Andrew the Apostle I would very earnestly ask you to check your conception of Christ, th...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Maundy Thursday There is joy and strength, of course, in this holy food and drink, but it is also...
J. B. PHILLIPS
One of Paul's most important teachings... is the doctrine of what we call "justification by faith". ...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Suppose Christianity is not a religion but a way of life, a falling in love with God, and, through H...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 The preacher and the writer ma...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 It is a singularl...
J. B. PHILLIPS
From the crude cry which we have so often heard during the war years: "If there is a God, why doesn'...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remem...
J. B. PHILLIPS
I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
J. B. SMOOVE
I'm on my version of the protein diet, but there ain't no protein in it. It's a Krispy K...
J. B. SMOOVE
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk ma...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
The cruelest revenge of a woman is to remain faithful to a man
J. B. BOSSUET
I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I&...
J. B. SMOOVE
If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of wor...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
But even the Christian, for all this satisfying and hopeful conviction, does not know the meaning of...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936 [The Christian] refus...
J. B. PHILLIPS
If New Testament Christianity is to reappear today with its power and joy and courage, men must reca...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 To me the...
J. B. PHILLIPS
The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be ai...
J. B. PHILLIPS
I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as though the historicity of the Gospels doe...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 Much of today's...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres...
J. B. PHILLIPS
What I am concerned with here is not to write a new life of Jesus, but to set down my witness to the...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Pentecost Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there i...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304 Most Christians are affected far more than they know by...
J. B. PHILLIPS
It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the ...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 God in His providence ha...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928 Following...
J. B. PHILLIPS
Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650 In his enthusiasm, ...
J. B. PHILLIPS
If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go t...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minut...
J. B. SMOOVE
I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.
J. B. SMOOVE
A lot of critics have picked themselves to be Michelle's self-appointed guardians. We look at the po...
B. J. WIE
She is a very happy girl today.
B. J. WIE
We've handled her press, her P.R., and been her travel agent. At some time, she will be on her own. ...
B. J. WIE
She grew up playing against boys in Hawaii, so it's very natural to her. She's used to playing with ...
B. J. WIE
You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the ...
J. B. SMOOVE
Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seem...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovin...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Un défaut qui empêche les hommes d'agir, c'est de ne pas sentir de quoi ils sont capables.
J. B. BOSSUET
The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
J. B. PRIESTLEY
I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and se...
J. B. SMOOVE
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty
J. B. BOSSUET
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' ...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor...
J. B. SMOOVE
When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used t...
J. B. SMOOVE
I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the ...
J. B. SMOOVE
What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
J. B. SMOOVE
I should be European, man. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.
J. B. SMOOVE
Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building a...
J. B. PRITZKER
We plan, we toil, we suffer in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Rad...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I ...
J. B. PRIESTLEY
I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody e...
S. J. ROZAN
The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest...
S. J. ROZAN
Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been exp...
S. J. ROZAN