quotes about Fanaticism

“For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of ***** across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.”

Source : "Rep. Steve King Slams Norquist Over Attacks on Immigration". Interview with Todd Beamon and John Bachman, www.newsmax.com. July 18, 2013.

“I only follow one party: the Vietnamese Party.”

“Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.”

“If you believe, sometimes unbelievable things are possible.”

“There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart – and our neighbors as ourselves. It is well to remember that he who gives money gives much; he who gives time gives more; but he who gives of himself gives all.”

“I don't really set personal goals for home runs or anything like that. However many I hit, I hit. If I'm making consistent contact and hitting the ball hard, then I will hit home runs.”

“If something scares me then I feel like I have to do it.”

“My slogan is who needs fitness when you've got great equipment.”

“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”

“Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case of the truth, that all duty is a gift, every call on us a blessing, and that the task we often find a burden is really a boon?”

Source : Peter Taylor Forsyth, Eugene H. Peterson (1916). “The Soul of Prayer”, p.11, Regent College Publishing