Christopher Quotes

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

I am a patriot, and I protest speed limits by exceeding them.

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.

No problem is so big and difficult that it can't be blamed on somebody else.

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.

It's overwhelming. I feel as if I am living in an illusion a dream where all things are possible. Amazing things do happen I know but always to someone else always in some far off place and time.

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

I believe, Eragon, that you are full of love and that you are looking for one who will reciprocate your affection. No shame exists in that.

You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.

I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

I don’t have a body, I am a body.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

I've made three musical movies which is pretty good considering that not many are made but I was lucky in other ways. I came along when independent movies were starting to boom.

My dad's full of encouragement and support. It just feels like abandonment and neglect.

You can do anything you think you can.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the 'Onion,' I honestly could not decide whether this was a clever hoax or not - the arguments were almost exactly as stupid as the real thing.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.

O soul, be changed into little waterdrops, / And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!

Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

We are spirits clad in veils.

Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.

If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.

Bob Dylan's Christianity has been allusive, idiosyncratic, and never the sort to place him on anyone's side in any Kulturkampf.

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

I think that weddings have probably been crashed since the beginning of time. Cavemen crashed them. You go to meet girls. It makes sense.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.