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Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
I've never professed to be anything but an average student. -- Dan Quayle
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values. -- Taylor Branch
I have the utmost respect for the different faiths professed by my fellow men. -- Leverett Saltonstall
I'm not perfect; I've never professed to be, and I don't want to be. How much fun is that? -- Michael Strahan
Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists. -- Jurgen Habermas
It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation. -- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. -- Thomas Huxley
To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves. -- William Bell
And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons. -- Robert Rainy
More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with CLARITY, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold. -- Juan Goytisolo
When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music. -- Ellen G. White
Saddam Hussein was not an Islamist. He's not a radical jihadist. He's not a radical Muslim. I mean, he was a - he was a Baathist. He was a secular - even though he professed to be a good and devout Muslim. -- Rick Santorum
I was invited to a dinner party by an ex, and I was convinced that he wanted to rekindle our relationship. I prohibited my friends from coming with me because I didn't want to make it awkward for them when he professed his love to me. -- Chrissie Fit
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. -- Joseph Conrad
I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love. -- Hari Kunzru
Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate. -- Paul Weyrich
Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate. -- Paul Weyrich
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? -- W. H. Auden
Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others. -- Ashoka
Faith is professed with the lips and with the heart, through words & through love. -- Pope Francis
The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew. -- John Milton
Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist. -- Anthony Trollope
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock. -- Vance Havner
Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines. -- Jean Baptiste Massillon
A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith. -- R.J. Rushdoony
Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement? -- Alan Sokal
If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it? -- Richard Paul Evans
Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists -- Jurgen Habermas
My parents professed to believe in God, but I rarely heard his name mentioned unattached to 'damn' or 'sakes' or 'willing. -- Edith Konecky
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit. -- George Bernard Shaw
The Gospel which we possess was not given to us only to be admired, talked of, and professed - but to be practiced. -- J. C. Ryle
The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science. -- Aleister Crowley
In general, religious people seem to be happier than non-religious people - under various definitions of "religiosity," such as church attendance or professed spiritual beliefs. -- Gretchen Rubin
Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations. -- Michel de Montaigne
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble. -- Mavis Gallant
There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads. -- Francis Alexander Durivage
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble."(The Mill) -- Anton Chekhov
To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves. -- William Bell
It is the professed goal [of U.S. multinational corporations] to control as large a share of the world market as they do of the United States market. -- Harry Magdoff
Integrity is the integration of ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs-and behavior. When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and practice match up, we have integrity. -- Nathaniel Branden
More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. -- Charles Alexander Eastman
Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalizedâ?¦ because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers' arguments were deeply flawed. -- William Wilberforce
It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result. -- John Dewey
A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child. -- John Irving
I do not believe in the creed professed by any church that I know of. Each of these churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my part, I disbelieve them all. -- Thomas Paine
He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved. -- Ayn Rand
If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all. -- John Milton
I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.' -- Don McCullin
As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches. -- Albert Camus
The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law. -- Caroline Glick

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