[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I … - Katharina Zell

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

You know how I impress girls at the gym? I do pull ups: I pull up in a Corvette, in a Cadillac, and in a Mercedes.

Katharina Zell

[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.

Baptists, Master, Pharisees, Refusing, Speaking Up, Upbraiding

Same Author Quotes

Governments. . . should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.

Conscience, Government, Heart, Matter, Temporal

Faith is not faith which is not tried.

Earth, Faith, Tried

Similar Quotes

Thomas B. Macaulay

Our judgment ripens; our imagination decays. We cannot at once enjoy the flowers of the Spring of life and the fruits of its Autumn.

Flower, Judgment, Life, Ripens, Spring

Philip Kitcher

Even though I want to expand the number of ways in which skilful ironic play happens, I suspect I'm probably guilty of the same shortcoming - and I hope that, one of these days, someone will claim that my book, while it goes in a salutary expansive direction, doesn't go far enough, that there are assumptions I make that show I've missed aspects of Mann's irony and ambiguity.

Book, Days, Expansive, Make, Numbers, Play

Chuck D

Cause I'm Black and I'm proud I'm ready and hyped plus I'm amped Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

Black, Hero, Heroes, Hip Hop, Hyped

Jerry Lawler

You know how I impress girls at the gym? I do pull ups: I pull up in a Corvette, in a Cadillac, and in a Mercedes.

Cadillacs, Corvette, Girl, Girls, Pull Ups, Ups

Marion Zimmer Bradley

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts

Kids, Schoolteacher, Starts, Talking, Trying