Prop Quotes - page 3

I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop. (Will Gluck)
It was not so long ago that the Bible enjoyed a stranglehold similar to that of the Quran over vast populations in the West. The theocracies propped up by the Bible in Europe and America had enacted similar sagas of slaughter and pillage for several centuries. But a sustained Western scholarship showed up the Bible for what it was. "It would be more consistent,” proclaimed Thomas Pain, "that we call it [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God.” The spell of Jehovah was broken.... The rest is history. Christianity is now seeking a refuge in countries like India where its rout in the West remains unknown. View quote
Sita Ram Goel
A healthy and humanitarian system of education would have placed all these facts before our young men and women coming from the Muslim community, and put to them the following proposition: These are the words and deeds credited to Muslim kings, saints, and theologians by the historians of Islam in medieval India;.... we do not want you to evaluate these words and deeds and tenets in terms of any non-Islamic religion or culture; our only appeal to you is to evaluate them in terms of natural human reason, man's natural moral sense, and elementary principles of human brotherhood without resort to the casuistry marshalled by the mullahs and sufis, or the apologetics propped up by the Aligarh and Stalinist schools of historians... View quote
Sita Ram Goel
American society loves to prop people up and then take them down. View quote
Zach Galifianakis
I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect. View quote
Amy Lee
Alas! vows are his after sign!- We prop the tree in its decline- The ghosts that haunt a parting hour, With all of grief, and nought of power; A chain half sunder'd in the making,- The plighted vow's already breaking. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Like bubbles in the water, the worlds rise, exist and dissolve in the Supreme Self, which is the material cause and the prop of everything. View quote
Adi Shankara
Allow me to dispel a myth. People in the Middle East do not hate us for our freedom. They do not hate us for our lifestyle. They hate us because we have spent many years attempting to force them to emulate our lifestyle. The US government overthrew the democratically elected leader of Iran and replaced him with the Shah. The US government gave weapons, intelligence and money to Saddam Hussein. The US government also helped Libyan Col. Qaddafi come to power, propped up the Saudi monarchy and the Egyptian regime, and gave assistance to Osama bin Laden. Most Americans have forgotten these events. But the people of the Middle East will always remember. It was because of American troops in Saudi Arabia, lethal sanctions on Iraq, support for states in serious violation of International Law, and siding with Israel in its dispute with the Palestinians that terrorist leaders were able to recruit those individuals who caused 3,000 Americans to pay the ultimate price on September 11, 2001. View quote
Michael Badnarik
I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America. View quote
Carl Sandburg
I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by. View quote
Benicio Del Toro
I can stand.” "It looks to me like you‘re using a wall to prop you up. that's not my definition of ‘standing.'” "Its leaning,” Jace told him. "Leaning comes right before standing. (Cassandra Clare)
To act the part of the fulcrum from which the least Radical portion of the party opposed to them can work upon their friends and leaders, is undoubtedly not an attractive future...it may well end in the moderate Liberals enjoying a permanent tenure of office, propped up mainly by their support...Yet it is the only policy by which the Conservatives can now effectively serve their country. View quote
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that. View quote
Martha Plimpton
Who prop, thou ask'st in these bad days, my mind? He much, the old man, who, clearest-souled of men, Saw The Wide Prospect, and the Asian Fen, And Tmolus hill, and Smyrna bay, though blind. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with liberalism and socialism, by the way: it has to be propped up by lies. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
We have not the slightest sympathy with that socialistic idea which would try to put laziness, thriftlessness and inefficiency on a par with industry, thrift and efficiency; which would strive to break up not merely private property, but what is far more important, the home, the chief prop upon which our whole civilization stands. Such a theory, if ever adopted, would mean the ruin of the entire country - a ruin which would bear heaviest upon the weakest, upon those least able to shift for themselves. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there...the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted. View quote
Joe Haldeman
Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books. View quote
Bill Watterson
I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction. View quote
William Faulkner
Six hundred years before the birth of Christ absolutism held unbounded sway. Throughout the East it was propped by the unchanging influence of priests and armies. In the West, where there were no sacred books requiring trained interpreters, the priesthood acquired no preponderance, and when the kings were overthrown their powers passed to aristocracies of birth. (John W. Campbell)
I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers." Aly propped her chin on her hand. "So does manure," she observed. View quote
Tamora Pierce
'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit. View quote
Matt Taibbi
The essential is That all the 'I's should remain separate Propped up under flowers, and no one suffer For his neighbour. Then horror is postponed For everyone until it settles on him And drags him to that incommunicable grief Which is all mystery or nothing. View quote
Stephen Spender
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop; To our infirmity. View quote
William Wordsworth