Greeley Quotes

#1. It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#2. If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West #Quote by Horace Greeley

#3. I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#4. The only real Jesus is one who is larger tahn life, who escapes our categories, who eludes our attempts to reduce Him to manageable proportions so that we can claim him for our cause. #Quote by Andrew M. Greeley

#5. I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability ... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#6. Then the bandit turned tail and broke for the open.

Greeley hit the sidewalk only seconds after him, big as he was and with a panic-stricken woman to detour around. A slice of hindmost heel was all he saw of the man. The store entrance adjoined a corner; that gave the fugitive a few added seconds of shelter, and as Greeley flashed around it in turn, again the breaks were the lawbreaker's.

There was a school midway up the street toward the next avenue. It was a couple of minutes past three now, and a torrent of young humanity came pouring out of the building by every staircase and exit, flooding the street. In through them the sprinting man plunged, knocking over right and left the ones that didn't get out of his way quickly enough. If it had been hazardous to take a shot at him in the store, it would have been criminal out here.

The kids parted, screaming in delighted excitement, as Greeley tore through them after the bandit with uptilted gun, but he couldn't just callously knock them flat like the man before him had. He sidestepped, got out of their way as often as they did his, and he began to fall behind the other, lose ground.

The kids weren't just on that one street - they had dispersed over the entire vicinity by now, for a radius of a block or more in every direction, in frisky, milling, homeward-bound groups. Through them the quarry zigzagged, pulling slowly but surely away. He kept going in a straight line, because it was #Quote by Cornell Woolrich

#7. We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley #Quote by Harold Holzer

#8. I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#9. God draws straight with crooked lines. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#10. Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#11. There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#12. Because you don't walk away from someone when things get tough, you find a way to stick it out and figure out what's gone wrong. - Zac Greeley, The Boyfriend Thief #Quote by Shana Norris

#13. Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion? #Quote by Horace Greeley

#14. Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#15. Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars ... we lost all three of them and for the same reason-hubris. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#16. The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#17. I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley #Quote by Harold Holzer

#18. Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#19. Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#20. The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#21. I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#22. Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee #Quote by Harold Holzer

#23. It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#24. Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#25. Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#26. Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#27. Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away from the 51 percent that endorsed it on Election Day. Admittedly this is only a small change in the population, from a majority to a minority. Nor do the changers earn grace for their new opinions. They still endorsed the war on Election Day and are still responsible for it. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#28. Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#29. Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#30. Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#31. We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#32. Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#33. Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country? #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#34. Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy's ministerial activities across the board than do Protestants. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#35. My songs will pass and be forgotten. What counts, however, is that I sang them. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#36. I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#37. For a time, Greeley seemed to be following the historic advice he had once given young Josiah Grinnell: "Go West, young man, go West. #Quote by Harold Holzer

#38. Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton #Quote by Harold Holzer

#39. The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#40. Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married partners who are faithful to one another, is there not a hint that affection might be an important aspect of sex? Even love? #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#41. We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#42. In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#43. I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#44. My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley, I got a small upstairs room at first, but gave it up to a married couple with a child, and then had one downstairs no bigger than a cabin, with only a canvas partition. It was very hot, and every place was thick with black flies. #Quote by Isabella Bird

#45. I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#46. We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#47. The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#48. If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#49. Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#50. I stepped back, wrenching my hands from his. I was a boyfriend thief, I reminded myself. A boyfriend thief couldn't get personally attached to her work. It was a business agreement and nothing more. I wasn't thaf girl who fell for a guy that was absolutely, completely wrong for her and who had come along at exactly the absolute wrong time. I couldn't afford distractions at this point in my life. And Zac Greeley had distraction written all over him. #Quote by Shana Norris

#51. The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#52. It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#53. A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#54. Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#55. Some newspapers, at the very start of the war, protested. Horace Greeley wrote in the New York Tribune, May 12, 1846:

We can easily defeat the armies of Mexico, slaughter them by thousands, and pursue them perhaps to their capital; we can conquer and "annex" their territory; but what then? Have the histories of the ruin of Greek and Roman liberty consequent on such extensions of empire by the sword no lesson for us? Who believes that a score of victories over Mexico, the "annexation" of half her provinces, will give us more Liberty, a purer Morality, a more prosperous Industry, than we now have? . . . Is not Life miserable enough, comes not Death soon enough, without resort to the hideous enginery of War? #Quote by Howard Zinn

#56. There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#57. Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear? #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#58. His heart was now beating rapidly. He wanted to embrace her, cover her with kisses, caress her hair, touch her breast, stroke her thighs: he wanted to sing songs for her, dance dances for her, write poems for her. #Quote by Andrew M. Greeley

#59. Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#60. A cigar has " ... a fire at one end and a fool at the other." #Quote by Horace Greeley

#61. I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#62. Well now, look at this, they keep winter in a box. That's clever, she congratulated me. Then she shut the fridge door ... #Quote by Andrew M. Greeley

#63. One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#64. The axe is the healthiest implement that man ever handled, and is especially so for habitual writers and other sedentary workers, whose shoulders it throws back, expanding their chests, and opening their lungs. If every youth and man, from fifteen to fifty years old, could wield an axe two hours per day, dyspepsia would vanish from the earth, and rheumatism become decidedly scarce. I am a poor chopper, yet the axe is my doctor and delight. Its used gives the mind just enough occupation to prevents its falling into revery or absorbing trains of thought, while every muscle in the body receives sufficient, yet not exhausting, exercise. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#65. One writer may speak of something more lasting than Horace Greeley when he writes of that editor that his secular philanthropy drifted into autocratic ambition. #Quote by Harold Holzer

#66. I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me ... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely ... I could have used a bit more solitude. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#67. You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#68. just before Todd leaves for Greeley. These stomach pains also graduate to violent fevers to where he would be freezing and sweltering at the same time. Norma, a family friend, is looking after Colton at her home while Sonja is teaching a class at Imperial #Quote by Omar Elbaga

#69. Bigotry is chronic dogmatism. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#70. If you have no family or friends to aid you ... turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#71. He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#72. So you would kill Old Ireland?" Anna Livia said. "You would kill yourself, for without Old Ireland, you wouldn't be. #Quote by Andrew M. Greeley

#73. Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#74. If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#75. Too late for that now," the Eldest Leprechaun said. "The damage is done. Give the thing a name, and it takes shape. They gave a name and a shape to the force that's always hated us. It's everything we're not. It's New Ireland, it's money for money's sake, brown paper envelopes stuffed full of bribes - the turn of mind that says that the old's only good for theme parks, and the new is all there needs to be. It's been getting stronger and stronger all this while.And now that it's more important to the people living in the city than we are, it's become physically real. #Quote by Andrew M. Greeley

#76. I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#77. Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#78. The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#79. Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#80. The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#81. There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#82. Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton. #Quote by Harold Holzer

#83. It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#84. There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment. #Quote by Andrew Greeley

#85. Ease up, the play is over. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#86. We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end. #Quote by Andrew M. Greeley

#87. We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#88. Mr. Lincoln is already defeated. He cannot be re-elected. #Quote by Horace Greeley

#89. I want to drink you in with my eyes till I am intoxicated forever. #Quote by Andrew M. Greeley