"In 56 A.D. [the apostle] Paul wrote that over 500 people had seen the risen Jesus and that most of them were still alive (1 Corinthians 15:6ff.). It passes the bounds of credibility that the early Christians could have manufactured such a tale and then preached it among those who might easily have refuted it simply by producing the body of Jesus."

-- John Warwick Montgomery

#Christian Quotes #Jesus Quotes #People Quotes

“He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.”
“My education was interrupted only by my schooling.”
“The division [between how much housework men and women do] is declining across all advanced economies - not for the reasons that people want, which is men are doing more, but because women are doing less of it, but even then, the trend is getting towards equality.”
“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.”
“Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.”
“Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?”

Source : Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.115, Penguin
“I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.”
“I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.”

Source : "Director James L. Brooks talks Spanglish". Interview with Brian B., movieweb.com. December 16, 2004.

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