Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aghason Paul

The apostles of Christ set about on mission throughout the world and St Mark evangelist went to Egypt. At the time the Egyptians suffered a lot with roman domination.

Jonathan Mayhew

The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God.

Martin Chemnitz

Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ was not the body of Christ but becomes the body of Christ when the eating of it is begun.

John Piper

As much as we can, let's defend the truth by pointing to what the apostles taught, and let's call out sin by pointing to the inconsistencies between what we say we believe and what we do.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

As an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, I testify to you this day that the time will come when every one of us will look into the Savior's loving eyes.

Bible Bible

When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

Allan Gurganus

'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

OVEREAT, v. To dine.Hail, Gastronome, Apostle of Excess, Well skilled to overeat without distress! Thy great invention, the unfatal feast, Shows Man's superiority to Beast. --John Boop

Tom Woodward

He saw himself as the apostle to the skeptic, the apostle to the thinking doubter.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Richard Rohr

This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.

Steve Mullin

We made believers out of a lot of people. They had us written off in January.

Bruce Feiler

For the vast majority of believers today, Scripture is a route to God but not necessarily the destination.

Mike Mislak

What we had trouble with in the first half was the little things. What we did in the second half was the little things. Credit the seniors and their experience. We are firm believers that when we go on a run, that it will be greater than the other team's run.

Jon Pearlman

I always believe. The boys always believe. I think we made believers out of everyone tonight.

James Randi

I have been through similar situations where believers will insist on believing despite the evidence no matter how strong that is.

Orin Kramer

We are great believers in democracy and capitalism and we think it would be wonderful if shareholders would have an opportunity to vote before they are deluded.

Todd Nelson

I think there's plenty of business for everybody. We'll create at least 50 percent of the business that goes out there. We're firm believers in our business that if it's slow, it's our fault.

Ian Frazier

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Vincent Bugliosi

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Tim Berners-Lee

There was a time when people felt the internet was another world, but now people realise it's a tool that we use in this world.

Webb Simpson

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

Valerie June

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

Chuck Palahniuk

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

Constance Marie

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

Evangeline Lilly

It's so important for women to say to other women, 'I like myself how I am.' But it's hard because in your heart of hearts you are thinking, 'I don't really.' But you have to learn to say it. Imagine what a world it would be if people felt good about themselves the whole time.

Ellie Goulding

Breakups just hit you harder when you're younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn't like me back!

Edward Snowden

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

Dave Jones

The points target at the start of the season was 52 points because that we felt was the safety mark.

Art Russell

The PC stocks should do well in the second half of this year.

Anirvan Banerji

The outlook for the second half is shakier -- but we do not see any sign of recession here.

David Remnick

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.

Bill Budge

I know when something is kind of half-baked.

Danielle Chaisson

The 3s at the start of the second half put us in a big hole. We made some sloppy passes and they capitalized.

Matt Gibson

That was the key to the whole game. We had a six-point lead in the first half and a four-point lead in the second half. (The Knights) got their leads because they rebound.

Mark Cuban

That was the worst half of officiating I've ever seen. That was terrible, and I want it on the record I said that at halftime, no matter what the outcome.

Chip Taylor

That was the thing we talked about early, was taking that away. In the second half I thought we did a better job, but it was too late.

Mark Belenski

That woke us up. We did not play well in the first half of the Hoban game.

Colin Angle

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.

Pat Robertson

We were sort of hiding the congressmen. They wouldn't let Dick Armey and people like that get on the platform.

Frank Armstrong

Why would you pay more for a big name? It comes out of your hide each and every year.

John Whiting

We have no ulterior motive here, ... There's no reason for us hide this information. We want to get it out.

Judy Hayles

I think she's got him hidden out someplace. She knows where he is, that you can rest assured. He left that place with no shoes, no jacket. He didn't even take his money with him. He told his roommate somebody was picking him up.

Judy Hayles

I think she's got him hidden out someplace.

Chris McGinnis

Yeah, it's good. No one should have a problem with it unless you're hiding something.

Tom Shales

You do have to wonder how Jack Bauer, maverick hero of '24,' can stay hidden for so long when no matter where he goes, he always seems within range of a TV camera. Or six.

Tom Petty

When you shoot well, you can hide a lot of deficiencies. I like the (3-pointer) as well as anyone, but we wanted to be a little more patient on offense in the second half.

Bill Hader

Paul Rudd is a huge 'Hot Rod' fan.

Nat Wolff

Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.

Doc Rivers

We have to make sure that Wally and Paul have shots at the end of the game. I'm disappointed in the loss. We played hard, but we're not playing smart.

Dario Franchitti

I'm still in shock about the whole thing. I didn't know Paul very well, but I've been through this before. I just feel for his family. It's such a tragedy.

Margaret O'Brien

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

Nancy Lopez

I think Paula Creamer has pretty much overshadowed everyone with what she has done,

Peter Travers

If it were Paul Walker in Snakes on a Plane , no one is going. You know Sam will have his usual spark and sense of humor.

Lee Majors

I also had a wonderful relationship with Paul Newman, and with Steve McQueen. He was one of my all-time favorites, but I never got to work with him.

Greg Cipes

I got to work with Paul Walker. He's an angel. He was so sweet.

Rick Snyder

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

John Taylor

From a practical standpoint, most Americans don't live there.

China Machado

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.

Baruch Spinoza

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Holly Tachovsky

She would not sugarcoat it for you. It was always very practical and real-world.

Bryan Gulley

It's just not practical to think that can happen.

Conor Oberst

It's kind of a practical thing to do it this way,

Al Jarreau

My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song ...'

Jonathan Galassi

John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.

Eric Brown

Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.

Ron Sanders

That's because they had published prices, and we haven't set prices.

Isabel Allende

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

Louis Lane

The so-called No. 2 is actually the first one because he thought the first one, which he wrote second, was a little better, so he had it published first.

Rebecca Stead

Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.

Morley Callaghan

I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

Siri Hustvedt

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Jonathan Diamond

We are disappointed in the verdict and will be reviewing our options.

Richard Head

Those who have been reviewing their statements have seen no unusual activity.

Mark Greene

The time for talking and reviewing and studying is over. I don't want us to wait until it's too late.

Stephen Minarik

I spoke with him yesterday and he said he was reviewing whether or not to run.

Bethenny Frankel

I'm scared of the unknown future.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Film, theater and television always kind of scared me. I don't ever seriously think of myself as an actor at all, and I don't plan any film career or television career.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're scared of what you can't control

Greg Hawkins

I won't go to a doctor. I'm scared he'll tell me I can't wrestle.

Teresa Davis

I was getting a little scared there for a minute.

Allen McDonald

We're all scared this administration will single us out, the ones that are outspoken.

Dennys Reyes

I was so scared to see a doctor.

Mary Stewart

I was so scared I don't feel I have any entrails anymore.

Sergei Liakhovich

He said I'm scared of him, but I am scared of nobody.

George Allen

Before I was governor, tuition was skyrocketing, and we stopped that. We capped and then we froze college tuition.

William Patterson

I stopped going to the conferences because most of (us) are all gone.

Jim Crace

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

David Hallberg

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.

Richard Greenberg

I thought if I stopped writing, ... the world would explode.

Vijay Batra

We have stopped work on the footbridge after objections from Pakistani soldiers,

G. H. Hardy

Basically, it's been wars that have stopped Mardi Gras.

John Mellencamp

Hanging out is a waste of time. The only time I would hang out was when I was a kid, I would hang out in the streets. But once I started making records, I stopped hanging out.

Mike McBride

He was unbelievable. We couldn't have stopped him with 16 tanks.

Kirk Triplett

That won the tournament for me, for sure.

Randy Burditt

Without all of the help, the tournament would be nothing. It was another success.

Gary Bettman

If accommodations have to be made, they'll have to be made in how the tournament is scheduled.

Gary McCord

Whatever the Tour fines me, it'll be worth it." ()

Chris Blackwell

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

Louis C. K.

You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.

Corey Brewer

We're in the tournament to win it all.

Mike Conners

Were in the tournament now, and in the tournament anything can happen.

Tom Herrion

We've still got a lot of work to do. The bye is nice, but we've got to go play come tournament time.

Earl Warren

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Dennis Farina

When they released Sidewalks of New York, there were some shots with the towers they were going to take out, and Ed told them no. I don't think they can deny the towers were a part of New York.

Clive James

Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

Philippe Petit

Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I could have become a millionaire overnight, obviously, but I said no, and I continue to be uninterested.

Harry Seidler

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

J. R. R. Tolkien

And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?

Randa Abdel-Fattah

I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time.

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.

Rose Smith

I wouldn't trade any of this for the world.

Macaulay Culkin

I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Pontius Pilate

Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

Anish Kapoor

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

Ivica Dacic

Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.

Monica Johnson

If you are not living unto Christ, you are not dying unto Him, either.

Bible Bible

And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.

Mahatma Gandhi

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

Mahatma Gandhi

We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability.

John Hope Franklin

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.