"The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business."

-- Wendell Phillips

#Ideas Quotes #Gossip Quotes #Mind Quotes

“The information age is so psychotic - without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.”

Source : Lauren Barnholdt (2007). “Two-way Street”, p.197, Simon and Schuster
“You got a lot of ladies to get through. Youâ€™re still young. First loveâ€™s the sweetest, but it doesnâ€™t last.â€ â€œNot ever?â€ I ask. Grandad looks at me with a seriousness he reserves for moments when he wants me to really pay attention. â€œWhen we fall that first time, weâ€™re not really in love with the girl. Weâ€™re in love with being in love. Weâ€™ve got no idea what sheâ€™s really aboutâ€”or what sheâ€™s capable of. Weâ€™re in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. Weâ€™re idiots.”
“I've tried a lot of things in the off-season, but the only thing I really know is baseball.”
“Jesus is both a mirror to our humanity and a window to divinity, a window revealing as much of God as is given mortal eyes to see. When Christians see Christ empowering the weak, scorning the powerful, healing the wounded, and judging their tormentors, we are seeing transparently the power of God at work.”

Source : William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press
“The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Congress of an enlightened republic. There would seem to be every reason for the equitable protection, without limit as to time, of the unquestioned property rights of its citizens.”

Source : The Literary World, October 28, 1899.
“Itâ€™s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectatorâ€™s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artistâ€™s.”
“Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.”

Source : Alexis De Veaux (1980). “Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday”, HarperCollins Publishers
“There aren't going to be many easy nights at all. There are going to be a lot of people beating up on each other. The pitching of the White Sox and Twins is exceptional.”

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