Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

I don't make any sense: I'm a germaphobe, but I'm really messy.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

I'm a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I'm not that good at all.

It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

[Dwight Eisenhower is] a soldier who doesn't like or want war. It's like a whore who believes in chastity.

I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.

In India, we say one thing, and we do something else.

I always wanted to write a sad song that sounds happy. I think everyone can relate to this emotion.

We all live with contradictions.

I feel like humans, when you're faced with decisions, you can go up and down: duality.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.