Reverends Quotes

• I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Moon, Unification Church, Academic

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• New rule: If churches don't have to pay taxes, they also can't call the fire department when they catch fire. Sorry reverend, that's one of those services that goes along with paying in. I'll use the fire department I pay for. You can pray for rain.

  Bill Maher

  Sorry, Rain, Fire

  "Real Time with Bill Maher", February 17, 2006.

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• Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Men, Compassion

  'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 47 (on the death of Jo)

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• The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

  Julian Bond

  Atlanta, Class, Guy

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• Reverend Samuel H. Weed, at my request selected two Greek words, 'cheir' and 'praktikos', meaning when combined, 'done by hand.' From which I coined the word, 'CHIROPRACTIC.'

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Weed, Hands, Two

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• Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Father, Math, Long

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• When you are in the temple, remember that you are in the living presence of the Lord God, that you stand before His face, before His eyes, in the living presence of the Mother of God, of the holy angels, and of the first-born of the Church - that is, our forefathers, the prophets, Apostles, hierarchs, martyrs, reverend Fathers, the righteous, and all the saints. Always have the remembrance and consciousness of this when you are in the temple, and stand with devotion, taking part willingly and with all your heart in the Divine service.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Mother, Father

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• I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland

  Gerry Adams

  Firsts, Paisley, Ministers

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• I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

  Don DeLillo

  Photography, Wedding, Writing

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.

  Isaac Watts

  Wise, Lying, Lows

  Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.152

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• An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

  Anatole France

  Father, Animal, Men

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• But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Mistake, Believe

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Running, Country

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.237, Canongate Books

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• Reverend Smith, he recognized me and punched me in the nose.

  Alice Cooper

  Religious, Religion, Noses

  Song: No More Mr. Nice Guy

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• For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, Believe

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama’s hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright’s decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts.

  David Limbaugh

  Israel, Church, Campaigns

  "Unpresidential Plummet". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. September 2, 2010.

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• He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.

  Voltaire

  Giving, Sage, Want

  Voltaire (1780). “The Works of Mr. de Voltaire. Translated from the French. With Notes. By T. Francklin ... T. Smollett, M.D., and Others. A New Edition”, p.69

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• Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Men, Battle

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach the Negroes to be defenseless - that's what you mean by nonviolent - be defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts that has ever taken people into captivity - that's this American white man, and they have proved it throughout the country by the police dogs and the police clubs.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Dog, Kings

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear a handkerchief anymore. They wear top hats. They're called Doctor, they're called - Reverend, but they're still - they play the same role today that Uncle Tom played on the plantation.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Doctors, Class

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• I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.

  Donna Brazile

  Jobs, Firsts, Controversial

  Interview with Eric Golub, tygrrrrexpress.com. November 8, 2008.

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• When I used to work for Reverend Jesse Jackson he would say, "You've got to know the rules in order to break the rules." The 1988 campaign of Reverend Jesse Jackson made fundamental changes to the way Democrats do business.

  Leah D. Daughtry

  Order, Fundamentals, Way

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I believe that Reverend [Florine] Thompson's hit on something. My parents, I and a lot of my friends growing up in that community had tremendous drive.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Growing Up, Believe, Community

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• Reverend Hale is so interesting because at first he's like, "Oh, she's got the mark." Then by the end he's like, "You're all crazy."

  Winona Ryder

  Crazy, Interesting, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the reasons for not selecting persons like the Reverend Borders and John Wesley Dobbs were, in my book rather obvious reasons: because they were people who were basically oriented in the direction of the established method of not confronting the power structure, but trying to elicit concessions by various and sundry means of, well, let's call it accommodating leadership.

  Ella Baker

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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