Ministers Quotes - Page 31

• I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred.

  Grantland Rice

  Practice, Rooms, Lawyer

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• We have decreased the salaries of everybody who partakes in politics, from the president to the prime minister to the MPs [members of Parliament]. We have cut expenditures that have to do with parliament. Everybody knows we are serious.

  Antonis Samaras

  Cutting, Mps, President

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

  Hosea Ballou

  Kindness, Weakness, Principles

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• A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Law, Judging, Virtue

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• A Queen, or a Prime Minister's secretary may be shot at in London, as we know; and probably there is no person eminent in literature or otherwise who has not been the object of some infirm brain or another. But in America the evil is sadly common.

  Harriet Martineau

  Queens, America, Evil

  Harriet Martineau (2015). “Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (Vol. I: Abridged, Annotated)”, p.317, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received undoubtingly. Until women throw off this reverence for authority they will not develop.

  Maria Mitchell

  Brother, Father, Men

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.

  Francis Atterbury

  Men, Good Man, Sake

  Francis ATTERBURY (Bishop of Rochester.) (1740). “Sermons and Discourses on several Subjects and Occasions”

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• The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Marriage, Brother, Father

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• Why, man of idleness, labor has rocked you in the cradle, and nourished your pampered life; without it, the woven silk and the wool upon your bank would be in the shepherd's fold. For the meanest thing that ministers to human want, save the air of heaven, man is indebted to toil; and even the air, in God's wise ordination, is breathed with labor.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Wise, Men, Air

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• The minister should preach as if he felt that although the congregation own the church, and have bought the pews, they have not bought him. His soul is worth no more than any other man's, but it is all he has, and he cannot be expected to sell it for a salary. The terms are by no means equal. If a parishioner does not like the preaching, he can go elsewhere and get another pew, but the preacher cannot get another soul.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Mean, Men, Soul

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• When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.

  Lorene Cary

  Reading, Book, Night

  Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.27, Vintage

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• I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.

  Bidzina Ivanishvili

  Jobs, Years, Two

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• I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or ministers or sociologists. A writer's job, is to, by way of fiction, somehow describe the way we live. And to me, this seems an important task, very worth doing, and I think also, to the reading public, it seems, even though they might not articulate it, it seems to them something worth doing also.

  John Updike

  Jobs, Reading, Thinking

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• I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, People, Trying

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the esteem which they and their possessor deserve. If they have been acquired by fraud or violence, if they make him proud and vain, if they minister to luxury and intemperance, if they are avariciously hoarded up and applied to no proper use, the possessor becomes odious and contemptible.

  John Jortin

  Men, Luxury, Violence

  John Jortin (1787). “Sermons on Different Subjects: By the Late Reverend John Jortin, ...”, p.75

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• In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility.

  John Richard Reid

  Party, Views, Given

  "Reid to resign with Blair". www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2007.

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• A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

  Sadao Araki

  Block, War, Adoption

  "Shakai kagaku tokyu" by Waseda Daigaku Shakai Kagaku Kenkyujo, Waseda Daigaku Ajia Taiheiyo Kenkyu Senta, (p. 883), 1992.

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• In appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time, with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country. In the light of these considerations, we find Hiroshi Saito, present Minister of Holland, the right person for the post.

  Sadao Araki

  Country, Past, Men

  "Up Saito!". "TIME" Magazine, December 25, 1933.

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• My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist.

  Mart Laar

  Names, Estonia, Prime

  "What Would the World Look Like if Economists Were in Charge?". Interview with Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics Radio, March 24, 2010.

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• The flat tax I got on my first meeting with Margaret Thatcher, who I admired very much and who was a great admirer of Milton Friedman. I met her first when I had been prime minister I think for some months and so on, and when I told her what I am planning to do, she looked at me with these big eyes and said: "You are one brave young man." And then a little bit introduced me on the realities of the Western world on which I was not very well informed. But I didn't stop.

  Mart Laar

  Eye, Reality, Men

  Interview with Stephen J. Dubner at "'Freakonomics Radio" podcast, March 24, 2010.

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• It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want to veil it in a supernatural haze. They are very reluctant to part with the old idea that God has given to Jews and Christians a peculiar monopoly of truth. It is a selfish view of God's government of the world, and it is time that we knew enough to outgrow it.

  Lydia M. Child

  Christian, Selfish, Government

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• There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'

  Vance Havner

  Names, Sin, Spokes

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• Some ministers preach from notes and some don't. They have argued about it for centuries. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Two Welsh preachers were on their way to a meeting. One noticed that the other carried written outlines. 'Ah,' he remonstrated, 'you cannot carry fire on paper.' 'True,' replied his companion, 'but you can use paper to start a fire!'

  Vance Havner

  Men, Fire, Two

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• Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Office, Heaven

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• My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.

  Jane Pauley

  Mother, Father, Parent

  "Pauley: 'I was suffering from bipolar disorder'". "Today" with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. August 31, 2004.

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