Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Ames

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

John Green

Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?" "And you say there's no afterlife.

Drew Barrymore

I cannot live a life where I'm deprived. I'd much rather be five, 10 pounds heavier. With my luck, I'll get myself to that perfect goal weight, and I'll get hit by a bus. Then I'll be like... looking at myself from some afterlife going, 'You idiot. You could have had that agnolotti, dummy.'

Michel Onfray

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

Art Buchwald

... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

Anton Chekhov

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

Bonnie Raitt

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

Gil Scott-Heron

I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive.

Adelbert von Chamisso

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

Lee Smith

he was a great person..and, uh..he had a heart of gold...he never met an enemy.

Jerry Colangelo

He wants to win a gold medal. He said that very clearly. He said if asked, he would be honored.

Laura Skaer

Gold prices have people snooping around where they haven't snooped for a while. No question, there's an increase and interest in exploration.

Wang Jian

Gold has never been sold at such a high price in Beijing.

John Bliss

Golden Valley is a very tough team and they always play us very tough. We're going to have to step it up.

Thomas Morgenstern

It is a dream. Two gold medals within two days.

Thomas Fuller

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Anton LaVey

I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

Christian Backman

I don't even know what I was thinking. I just threw all my stuff up and skated around on the ice. When I got the gold medal around my neck, it was hard to hold back your tears.

Venus Williams

I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.

Virginia Woolf

Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

Nia Vardalos

You're never too fat for a new purse.

John Heywood

Put your toong in your purse.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse.

Charles Lamb

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

Benjamin Franklin

Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

Benjamin Franklin

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

Charles Churchill

Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.