C. J. Dennis Quotes

I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.

I was an abstract expressionist before I had seen any abstract expressionist paintings. I started when I was a kid and continued just doing abstract stuff all through high school.

In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.

I'd never won the Stanley Cup so I asked Cournoyer right after the final if this was like winning the Cup. He said, 'This is ten times better.' I believed him.

Without Your life I know there is no life. For I was dead in sin and You gave life to me! Without Your life I'd surely rather die! Lord Jesus, live Your life through me! You are life to me!

I was piggy. But I'm not that person anymore.

She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money.

Reclaim our environment from those who would destroy it with their predatory economic behavior.

Crimes against humanity in Gaza: is it really a 'buffer zone' - or a bigger plan? -- It's time to step back and ask if we want to support Israel if it wants to eject all Palestinians from their land.

The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.

We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.

But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved.

Iraq does not pose an imminent threat to the United States of any of its neighboring nations.

We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children.

Lies are weapons of mass destruction.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

Look, I've lost before. And there's always a tomorrow.

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

Oh, my family lived in 21 places before I was 17.

I believe health care is a civil right.

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.

We have a right to defend ourselves, but we don't have a right to aggress.

We cannot take the president off the hook for an illegal war that was based on lies.

We show our support and love the troops, whatever our opinion.

My aspirations for this country would be on the scope of what Franklin Roosevelt brought to this country in 1932 when he saw a nation that was broken economically.

The United States must reach out to the world community with a new plan to stabilize Iraq, bring U.N. peacekeepers in, and bring U.S. troops home.

Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.

If you want to rock the Vote, You have to Rock the Boat.

I could hear your heart and soul come through your voice!

Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.

He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.

First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

People have a right to know what is in the food they are eating, and that the food is safe.

Let's help people in this country with the resources we have.

When you're talking about Iraq and oil, you're talking about a mess, no matter who's in charge.

2,074 pages isn't nearly enough to cover health care for America.

Neither awake nor in a dark dream are perilous blades just as they seem.

ATLANTA NIGHTS: I haven't been this stunned since my colonoscopy.

Auguries are oft subtle...and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Grief, he said, is carnivorous.

I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to die, then I couldn't raise the gun to my head fast enough.

Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.

Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.