If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
 FRANCIS “Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
 FRANCIS Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
 FRANCIS Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
 FRANCIS Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
 FRANCIS Friends let friends wear purple.
 FRANCIS It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
 FRANCIS Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
 FRANCIS There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRY You have to open up on stage.
KAREN O I was a complete outsider in high school.
KAREN O My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of k...
KAREN O Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
KAREN O Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
KAREN O Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so ...
KAREN O I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
KAREN O I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
KAREN O Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems fro...
KAREN O I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
KAREN O Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when...
KAREN O I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and...
KAREN O I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint ...
KAREN O Sophomore records are historically really difficult.
KAREN O I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
KAREN O For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
KAREN O I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of so...
KAREN O I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
KAREN O By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. HENRY The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he trave...
O. HENRY I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
O. HENRY It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. HENRY Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn...
O. HENRY East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of peopl...
O. HENRY When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRY Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
O. HENRY It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. HENRY If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. HENRY I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my lif...
O. HENRY She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owner...
O. HENRY Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, ...
STEVE-O What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New...
O. HENRY Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HENRY It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's w...
O. HENRY I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist.
STEVE-O Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, st...
STEVE-O Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words wh...
O. HENRY Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the soci...
O. HENRY There's definitely some parallels between me and Joaquin Phoenix, I think. The line gets so blur...
STEVE-O Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citiz...
O. HENRY Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appe...
STEVE-O I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some poin...
STEVE-O The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling ...
O. HENRY The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about...
STEVE-O I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateb...
STEVE-O She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owne...
O. HENRY It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. HENRY A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HENRY Christmas Isn't About Receiving, Its About Giving.
EZEKIEL O Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take...
O. HENRY When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched i...
STEVE-O Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur.
STEVE-O Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 It is not necessary to maintain a conversati...
O. HALLESBY Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of...
O. HENRY What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way o...
STEVE-O I have a rescue dog named Walter, and Walter and I are such fans of the 'Jersey Shore' that ...
STEVE-O The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of goo...
STEVE-O I don't go around lecturing people and telling them they shouldn't eat meat. I just don'...
STEVE-O No friendship is an accident.
O. HENRY My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.
STEVE-O Take it from me - he's got the goods.
O. HENRY If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. HENRY I have been really enjoying making a project out of seeking out an extremely healthy diet of raw, or...
STEVE-O Live not in the depressive past, nor the anxious future, but NOW.
ANNA O I think people will be surprised to find that I'm not as much of an idiot as they think I am. I&...
STEVE-O I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have...
STEVE-O When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my...
STEVE-O Nowadays Love Is A I Want Not I Need
EZEKIEL O You can't taste victory until you've tasted defeat
EZEKIEL O Don't go fixing other people's problems until you know yours is fixed
EZEKIEL O Happiness Is What We All Want, Therefore Not All Of Us Can Get It Because We Quit Easily
EZEKIEL O Don't Mind The Mind
EZEKIEL O She had
become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the
air he breathed-...
O. HENRY Be The Voice They Can Follow Out Of Darkness
EZEKIEL O He had the artistic metempsychosis which is half drunk when sober and looks down on airships when st...
O. HENRY It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
O. HENRY I may not like sleep but it's always there when I need it
EZEKIEL O Don't Be Sorry When You Did Nothing
EZEKIEL O You can't keep a bird in a cage forever.
EZEKIEL O There's Violence in your slience
EZEKIEL O If you give up on life just know death hasn't given up on you, your best choice is to keep on going ...
EZEKIEL O can't ask for help if you didn't do the work can you now?
EZEKIEL O No team is easy to beat, They work just as hard
EZEKIEL O When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I po...
STEVE-O I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of p...
O. HENRY At this point, I've really failed at a lot of things. It's nice to be able to say that, in a...
STEVE-O I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span th...
STEVE-O When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an 'issue-by-issue' basis - they interview...
STEVE-O I have a tough stomach, and I've put myself through a lot. But when I first found out what happe...
STEVE-O It's commonly said that if slaughterhouses had clear glass walls, nobody would eat meat. I think...
STEVE-O I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm o...
STEVE-O I keep my iPod on shuffle most of the time, but I'm most into Cirque du Soleil soundtracks.
STEVE-O The Give and Take Athletic Association lived up to its name. The hall of the association in Orchard ...
O. HENRY Initially, my decision to stop eating meat was motivated by fear of spiritual consequences, but righ...
STEVE-O Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal.
STEVE-O I don't care if people think I'm boring.
STEVE-O Anybody that's not supportive of me staying sober obviously has to go. But on the other hand, th...
STEVE-O I'm definitely a ham for the paparazzi.
STEVE-O Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...
POPE FRANCIS The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
POPE FRANCIS If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
POPE FRANCIS There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
FRANCIS BACON Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity...
FRANCIS BACON In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACON Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS We all have the duty to do good.
POPE FRANCIS From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...
POPE FRANCIS In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
POPE FRANCIS When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
POPE FRANCIS The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
FRANCIS BACON I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
FRANCIS COLLINS We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Be...
FRANCIS MAUDE I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p...
GENIE FRANCIS Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both ...
FRANCIS QUARLES Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
FRANCIS PICABIA Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
FRANCIS BOWEN I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ...
FRANCIS CHAN The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
FRANCIS ASBURY We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
FRANCIS PARKMAN If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
FRANCIS BACON Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
FRANCIS PICABIA The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is ha...
QUARLES FRANCIS So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
FRANCIS BACON States are great engines moving slowly.
FRANCIS BACON They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON All beliefs are bald ideas.
FRANCIS PICABIA Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
FRANCIS KEPPEL Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have b...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made ...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY