| "Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam." »A. Whitney Griswold |
| "Instead of pointing a finger, we should hold out our hand." »Henry Drummond |
| "A politician is like quicksilver if you try to put your finger on him, you will find nothing under it." »Austin O'Malley |
| "He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger." »Frank Lloyd Wright |
| "It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye." »George Pratt Shultz |
| "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." »Mel Brooks |
| "A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool." »Joseph Roux |
| "Everyone has a different finger print.... Not to distinguish onself , but to give us an equal opportunity to leave a mark on the world." »Siddharth Astir |
| "Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger." »Cicero |
| "There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens." »Elizabeth Berg |
| "The Moving finger writes and, having writ, Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it." »Omar Khayym |
| "There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved it is God's finger on man's shoulder." »Charles Langbridge Morgan |
| "Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed." »William James |
| "Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket." »Alan Marshall Beck |
| "In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize his attitude toward God and religion. A London lady sat next to him at this party, and over the soup she suggested to him that he was not only the world's most famous atheist but, by this time, very probably the world's oldest atheist. 'What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong' she asked. 'I mean, what if--uh--when the time comes, you should meet Him What will you say' Russell was delighted with the question. His birght, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contempalated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, 'Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.' '" »Al Seckel |
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