All Quotes

The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?
‐‐ Neel Mukherjee

The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.
‐‐ Ephraim Mirvis

The Bethlehem profit-sharing system is based on my belief that every man should get exactly what he makes himself worth. This is the only plan I know of which is equally fair to the employers and every class of employee. Someday, I hope, all labor troubles will be solved by such a system.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

The better day, the worse deed.
‐‐ Matthew Henry

The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

The better I get at writing songs, the harder it seems to be to relate to people. But when I get on stage, I'm extremely happy.
‐‐ John Darnielle

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

The better-informed we are, the more we can do to make sure what's happening is in our interests and is accountable to us.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.
‐‐ David Josiah Brewer

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
‐‐ James Anthony Froude

The better quarterbacks are real consistent. Rookie quarterbacks are not.
‐‐ Jeffrey Lurie

The better the acting is, the harder it is to see what the process is.
‐‐ Paul Dano

The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.
‐‐ Scotty Bowman

The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
‐‐ Jessica Savitch

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
‐‐ Kate Adie

The better the ingredients, the more farmers I can buy from, the closer I feel to the food I want to make that represents what I care about as a chef.
‐‐ Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.
‐‐ Luciano Pavarotti

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
‐‐ Toni Collette

The better your audience, the more energy you have, and the more energy you have, the better show you do. The better show you do, the more they love it, and the more energy they give back to you.
‐‐ Gloria Gaynor

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
‐‐ Susan Cain

The biased left-wing media does what it wants. That's not going to define me or hamper me.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
‐‐ Al Franken

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
‐‐ Dave Mustaine

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
‐‐ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Bible app is designed to make absorbing the Word as frictionless as possible. For example, to make the Bible app habit easier to adopt, a user who prefers to not read at all can simply tap a small icon, which plays a professionally produced audio track, read with all the dramatic bravado of Charlton Heston himself.
‐‐ Nir Eyal

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.
‐‐ Albert Barnes

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
‐‐ Adam Hamilton

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
‐‐ Lynn Lavner

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.
‐‐ Jim Hightower

The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.
‐‐ Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.
‐‐ John Piper

The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.
‐‐ Jud Wilhite

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.
‐‐ Simon Schama

The Bible gives a true and trustworthy account of creation, and that account in no way conflicts with or contradicts an old-Earth view, and vice versa.
‐‐ Hugh Ross

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

The Bible has been trapped in modernity. Everything has to work perfectly. And if everything doesn't fit in a Lego-oriented functionality, then we don't deal with it as Christians.
‐‐ Erwin McManus

The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
‐‐ Eleanor Roosevelt

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
‐‐ John Shelby Spong

The Bible is a history book.
‐‐ Amar'e Stoudemire

The Bible is a novel that's crazy... it has murder, it has victory it has mayhem, it has disaster, it has war, sanctification.
‐‐ Fred Hammond

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
‐‐ Dan Savage

The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
‐‐ Jupiter Hammon

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.
‐‐ Franz Kafka

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
‐‐ George Santayana

The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking they would. I took my boys to church. I took my football team to church. I only did it two times a year. Before I signed a kid, I'd write the parents and I'd tell that parent we were gong to take your son to church twice.
‐‐ Bobby Bowden