Scary Quotes - Page 28

• It's scary how easy promises were broken.

  Jenny Han

  Broken, Promise, Easy

  Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet... nattering nabobs of negativism.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Assassins, Bullets, Protection

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• Frankly, the president, during the first opportunity I had to be in a Cabinet meeting, before we started the meeting, he said, Folks, before we begin this meeting, I'm going to call on General Ashcroft and ask him invite the wisdom and presence of God in what we do. And I thought to myself how ashamed I'd been that so many times in my life I had entered upon great important tasks and I had cheated myself and those that I had served of a blessing.

  John Ashcroft

  Blessing, Opportunity, Important

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• Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Hypocrisy

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.299, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?

  John Calvin

  Copernicus, Venture, Spirit

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• They engage in activities aimed at bringing them [clients] to Jesus. That's fine, but it shouldn't be done with government money.

  David Saperstein

  Jesus, Government, Done

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• [Castellani's testimony] clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.

  Abraham Foxman

  People, Effort, Reform

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• Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Evil, Temptation, Fascination

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• The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Obeying God, Slave, Should

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• Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Philosophy, World, Earth

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• This is no time to be precious about locating the exact individuals directly involved in this particular terrorist attack.... We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, Cheer, Dancing

  "This is war". townhall.com. September 14, 2001.

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• All we can do is politely ask aliens from suspect nations to leave ... while we sort the peace-loving immigrants from the murderous fanatics.... Muslim immigrants who agree to spy on the millions of Muslim citizens unaffected by the deportation order can stay.

  Ann Coulter

  Order, Spy, Citizens

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• Frankly, I'm getting a lot of great publicity.

  Ann Coulter

  Publicity

  "National Review Cans Columnist Ann Coulter". www.washingtonpost.com. October 2, 2001.

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• By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with a writer who would refuse to discuss her work with her editors? What publication would continue to publish a writer who attacked it on TV? What publication would continue to publish a writer who lied about it - on TV and to a Washington Post reporter? ... It's true: Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Writing, Editors, Fearless

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• The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.

  W. A. Criswell

  Church, Election, States

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• Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? Does life have any meaningful purpose?

  Tom DeLay

  Meaningful, Doe, Purpose

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• Don't send your kids to Baylor. And don't send your kids to [Texas] A&M... Texas A&M used to be a conservative university. It's lost all of its conservatism.... My daughter went there. You know, she had horrible experiences with coed dorms and guys who spent the weekends in the rooms with girls.

  Tom DeLay

  Girl, Daughter, Kids

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• Any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.

  William A. Dembski

  Views, Christ

  William A. Dembski (2002). “Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology”, p.206, InterVarsity Press

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• Persecute them. ... Let them be put to shame and perish. ... Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ... Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

  Wiley Drake

  Children, Wife, Vagabonds

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• Let us join Paul and declare anathema upon anyone who loves not the Lord Jesus. (I Cor 16:22)

  Wiley Drake

  Jesus, Lord, Anathema

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• The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.

  Wiley Drake

  Prayer, Punishment, People

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• Please do not put earthly expectations on a heavenly experience.

  John Edward

  Expectations, Please, Heavenly

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• I can only be as good as [the audience members] at acknowledging and owning the information that's coming through ... and sometimes, nobody comes through.... One of the things that I've learned is that I am not an operator and I can't dial direct, ... and even if I do make the connection with the person they want to hear from, there's no guarantee that they're going to come through and tell them what they want to hear.

  John Edward

  Guarantees That, Connections, Want

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• Even more precious is his Edward writes, I'm always saying that it is not the spirits who are getting it wrong; it's more likely that I am misinterpreting their messages.

  John Edward

  Writing, Messages, Spirit

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• We are particularly thankful to you for your part in the movement to have the words under God added to our Pledge of Allegiance. These words will remind Americans that despite our great physical strength we must remain humble. They will help us keep constantly in our minds and hearts the spiritual and moral principles which alone give dignity to man.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spiritual, Heart, Humble

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