The theologians also should not be irritated. For if they find that this opinion is false, then they would be free to condemn it; and if they discover that it is true, they ought to thank those who have opened the way to finding the true sense of the Scriptures and who have prevented them from falling into the grave scandal of condemning a true proposition.
I'm a professional at [drinking], so that's why I've never had scandals before.
The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.
It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.
The times talk to us of so much poverty in the world and this is a scandal. Poverty in the world is a scandal. In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, that there are so many children without an education, so many poor persons. Poverty today is a cry.
Money you haven't earned is not good for you.
Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.
People stopping you in the street, though, is very different from being hounded by the press, which is the kind of attention that celebrities get, and I'm probably too old for that kind of thing to happen anyway. I think it happens more when you're dating all sorts of different very handsome actors or something. They want gossip and scandal, and they know they're not going to get it from me because I'm too old to be scandalous. Of course, they could read the book - although it's not really a scandalous book.
It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.
All one great big lie.
A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.
Big scandal on the new 'Survivor' series. The white, the black and the Hispanic teams were caught cheating off the Asian team.
Just as the superstar pastor model can have its problems once the superstar pastor gets old or has a scandal or something, the house church model. . . there's a reason that the house churches of the New Testament era grew up into a more institutional faith down the road.
No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.
Remember how he handled the Iran-contra Never Ending Scandal from Hell? He went on national television, the President of the United States, and said it wasn't his fault, because he was not aware, at the time, of what his foreign policy was.
The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.
It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.
The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.
If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century.