Joe Gould: Jesus H. Christ! Jesus Mary and Joseph! All the saints and martyrs and Jesus! Did I mention Jesus?
Joseph Takagi: You want money? What kind of terrorists are you? Hans Gruber: Who said we were terrorists?
Joseph Nagle, Carpenter's Mate: Captain's not called Lucky Jack for no reason.
Joseph Bradley: How do you like Pakistan so far? Maya: It's kinda fucked up.
It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice.
The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.
Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.
Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.
The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
There's no way that scientists can ever rule out religion, or even have anything significant to say about the abstract idea of a divine creator.
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.
You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.
Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.
