Quotes with church-like

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  • Henry Ward Beecher A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Katchor A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Alistair Cooke A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Arthur Koestler A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Brendan Behan A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Rob Cella A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
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  • Woody Allen A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Billy Sunday A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Bootsy Collins A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A room without books is like a body without a soul.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • William Hazlitt A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Frank Dane A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Samuel Johnson A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • C. S. Lewis A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Barry Cornwall A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Walter Bagehot A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Jean Baudrillard A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth - either epileptic or dead.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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