Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Audre Lorde

Divide and conquer must become define and empower.

Audre Lorde

Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . .

Caitlin Stasey

Women – love each other, support each other, defend each other. It comes at a greater cost to you to attack the women around you than it does to empower them.

Beyonce Knowles

So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority... We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.

Jim Griffin

They give us that autonomy. They're very big into giving and empowering people.

David Kim

The gospel changes how we view and work with others in a way that both humanizes our interactions with them and empowers them to work well.

Andie MacDowell

As a proud spokesperson for L'Oreal Paris, I have communicated the 'Because You're Worth It' message many times, and know firsthand how empowering it is to say and how empowering it feels.

Bill Gates

The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past.

Kirsten Gillibrand

Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.

David Brooks

We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.

Denis Waitley

Losers take chances; winners make choices.

Deepika Padukone

I am the universe. Infinite in every direction. This is my choice

Bernard Baruch

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

C. S. Lewis

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

Agnes Repplier

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Aaron Tveit

You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

Charlie Crist

I'll be honest with you, I don't agree with President Obama about everything. But I've gotten to know him, I've worked with him, and the choice is crystal clear.

Cheryl Richardson

It may just be that a true wake-up call creates a true shift in consciousness. My wake-up call left me no choice. I had to make dramatic changes. Sometimes changes just happen within you, it is the way you approach things. Everything else stays the same.