When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.
Leland Ryken
Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.
Leland Ryken
Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.
There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.
Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
I write in American slang.
Norman Spinrad
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
Anthony Burgess
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.
There is no such thing as getting rid of nervousness.
Itzhak Perlman
In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult.
Chrystia Freeland
Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.
I'll be very clear about this: I'm not a fan of getting rid of Dodd-Frank.
Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.
I abhor hypocrisy.
Don Lemon
I do not believe in hypocrisy.
Vijay Mallya
There is so much hypocrisy in sports.
Dennis Rodman
Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
Mason Cooley
Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.
Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
Margaret Atwood
Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
Charles Palliser
I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
In the Victorian age, actors played Romeo until they were 60 or 70 years old.
Politics is applied biology.
Ernst Haeckel
I applied to Yale, and I got in.
Mitch Leigh
I applied for a job on 'Melody Maker' once.
Nick Hornby
Medical physics is an applied area of physics.
John Cameron
I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
I applied to American Repertory School up at Harvard at got in.
As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.
Billy West
Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
Taylor Swift
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.
The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.
The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.
Get rid of debt now.
Suze Orman
We can get rid of red tape.
Charlie Daniels
We must get rid of all the guns.
Sarah Brady
Obamacare. Get rid of it. Period.
Tim Scott
I'm always having to get rid of reporters.
Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.
I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.
Broke is a Hollywood term!
David Geffen
I hate the term 'rom-com.'
Sandra Bullock
Short term memory is not good.
Jim McMahon
'Career' is not a musical term.
Simon Rattle
I don't like the term 'dynasty.'
I hate the term 'philanthropist.'
I don't like the term 'voice-over.'
I'm very religious.
Lance Bass
I was never religious.
Chaz Bono
I'm not a religious person.
Maurice Sendak
I'm a religious broadcaster.
Pat Robertson
I'm a very religious person.
My family is very religious.
Religious people are happier.
Think off-center.
George Carlin
Think and grow rich.
Napoleon Hill
To live is to think.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think I look okay.
Nicole Richie
Don't think, just do.
Think until it hurts.
I think I'm a bit odd.