A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable that life should appear on at least one of them?' 'Sir,' replied Knox, 'if Scotland Yard found a body in your cabin trunk, would you tell them: 'There are millions of trunks in the world; surely one of them must contain a body? I think the would still want to know who put it there. '
He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.
It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.
Only those of us, I think, who were born under Queen Victoria know what it feels like to assume, without questioning, that England is permanently top nation, that foreigners do not matter, and that if the worst comes to the worst, Lord Salisbury will send a gunboat.
Communism has established centres of infection. . . No area in the world is as vital to American security as the Caribbean. . . We need a massive injection of money to reset the country on its feet, and this injection can come only from our great, capable friend and neighbor the United States.
This microphone is the key to the universe. When you have this in your hands, you are the most powerful person in the whole world, let's get!.
We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.
Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate