Martin Gabel

Martin Gabel (1911-1986) was an American actor, director, and producer. He acted in films between 1951 and 1980 and frequently appeared as a panelist on the television program What's My Line?

Don't just do something. Stand there.

Quoted by Leonard Lyons

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Our holy Scriptures themselves do not promise us peace, security, and rest. On the contrary, the Gospel makes no secret of the troubles and temptations that await us, but it also says that he who perseveres to the end will be saved.

Augustine of Hippo

When I see that the right and the means of absolute command are conferred on a people or upon a king, upon an aristocracy or a democracy, a monarchy or a republic, I recognize the germ of tyranny, and I journey onward to a land of more hopeful institutions.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Attention is not concentration.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

People who seem to have good luck are often the people who have a system that allows luck to find them.

Scott Adams

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both.

Edmund Burke

I apologize to the rationalists even for calling them rationalists. There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them.

G.K. Chesterton

The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Woodrow Wilson

How do we bring about conversion of those living in blindness? By love. By truth in charity. By offering forgiveness. By offering mercy. With prayer.

Abby Johnson

Those who understand freedom as the radically arbitrary license to do just what they want and to have their own way are living in a lie, for by his very nature man is part of a shared existence and his freedom is shared freedom.

Benedict XVI

Religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. . . .

George Mason

Wingsuits [are] the halfway point between parachute pants and parachutes.

Randall Munroe

Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.

Elbert Hubbard

Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.

Robert A. Heinlein

There is no shortage of oppressors among the downtrodden, even if, given their lowly positions, many of them are only tyrannical wannabes.

Jordan Peterson

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.

Paul the Apostle

It’s OK to decide not to decide—as long as you have a decide-not-to-decide system.

David Allen

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

Jack Handey

Making saints out of sinners was even greater than making something out of nothing. For nothingness put up no resistance to him, as we did.

Peter Kreeft

In general, if you were to design a country ideally suited to flourish in the world we are living in, it would look more like the United States than any other.

Thomas Friedman

A fish does not campaign against fisheries, it only tries to slip through the mesh.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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