Paul Ritchey Quotes

The privilege of the living is to misquote the dead. ~ Paul Ritchey

I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool. ~ Alan Goldsher

[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future. ~ Vincent De Paul

I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled in the arts. So that recognition I credit for my growing interest in art that continued to evolve later on. ~ Paul Smith

Rumour has a hundred mouths. ~ Paul Verlaine

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives? ~ Paul Ryan

The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must banished. Lingering on the past is weakness, Lord Vader. ~ Paul S. Kemp

I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk anytime you like. ~ Ron Paul

Follow your dreams and use your natural-born talents and skills to make this a better world for tomorrow. ~ Paul Watson

I find nothing more depressing than optimism. ~ Paul Fussell

We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent. ~ Paul Warburg

We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves. ~ Rand Paul

I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A. ~ Aaron Paul

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress ~ Paul Karl Feyerabend

People don't like to be lectured to, but if you can make them laugh, their defenses come down, and for the time being they've accepted whatever truth is embedded in your humor. ~ Paul Krassner

I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence ~ Paul Morabito

The implicit optimism of the [field service post card] is worth noting - the way it offers no provision for transmitting news like "I have lost my left leg" or "I have been admitted into hospital wounded and do not expect to recover." Because it provided no way of saying "I am going up the line again," its users had to improvise. Wilfred Owen had an understanding with his mother that when he used a double line to cross out "I am being sent down to the base," he meant he was at the front again. Close to brilliant is the way the post card allows one to admit to no state of health between being "quite" well, on the one hand, and, on the other, being so sick that one is in hospital. ~ Paul Fussell

Neither one of us could really articulate how we felt until I heard Lamott referencing Paul Tillich and telling the audience, "The opposite of faith is not doubt - it's certainty." Steve and I didn't leave religion because we stopped believing in God. Religion left us when it started putting politics and certainty before love and mystery. ~ Brene Brown

Sen. Rand Paul is a Different Kind of Republican. He will drag the party, kicking and screaming, toward a new kind of conservatism that appeals more to today's youth, who embrace liberty and are skeptical of foreign intervention. ~ Alex Pareene

In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not changed much through twelve thousand years - and those are tree names: especially birch, willow, adler, elm, ash, apple and beech (bher, wyt, alysos, ulmo, os, abul, bhago). Seed syllables, bija, of the life of the west. ~ Gary Snyder

We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours. Alan Christoffersen's diary ~ Richard Paul Evans

I can assure you that God did not put us here to amass piles of riches and wealth. He put us here to learn…. and some of life's greatest lessons are realized when you have nothing left to give. ~ Jacob Paul Patchen

People are like books, unknown until they are opened. ~ Richard Paul Evans

when you reach a point where you can distinguish between the things you thought you wanted and the things you actually need, that is an epiphany. ~ Paul Stanley

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference. ~ Paul Davies

When you look into the eyes of an animal you've rescued, you can't help but fall in love. ~ Paul Shaffer

I sank down on the bench, stupefied, stunned by this profusion of beings without origin: everywhere blossomings, hatchings out, my ears buzzed with existence, my very flesh throbbed and opened, abandoned itself to the universal burgeoning. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

My 6 years with Murdoch were pivotal for my entire research career. ~ Paul Nurse

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work. ~ Paul Simon

Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz. ~ Paul Desmond

You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference. ~ Paul Schrader

The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him ~ Paul McCartney

I think Saudi Arabia often finances radical Islam and the teaching of hatred to the West and hatred of Americans. I think it is important that we know that. It's important that we know that there is a threat within and a threat without. I think we can stop it with more aggressive use of actual constitutional tools. ~ Rand Paul

Afternoon tea needn't stand on ceremony. Anything that becomes more important than sweet fellowship, whether lace or linen or the china itself, is pretense. How much more we enjoy life when the pretenses are discarded! ~ Paul F. Kortepeter

The more I read, {the Bible] the more Paul sounds like a stroke victim, who never taught a thing that Jesus taught, and only quotes him once, in Acts, wrongly, and the 12 are constantly chastising him for his teachings. ~ Glenn Hefley

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing. ~ Paul Auster

The more spiritual successes that Edwards experienced, the more he seemed to intentionally infuse his sermons with language deemed to move a person's emotional center - their souls - to spiritually and physically respond. ~ Matthew Paul Turner