Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ayn Rand

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Jan Hus

Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail.

Kate Winslet

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

Clarice Lispector

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Alexander MacLaren

Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.

David Foster Wallace

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay

Swami Vivekananda

Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God.

Max Lucado

When you recognize God as Creator, you will admire Him. When you recognize His wisdom, you will learn from Him. When you discover His strength, you will rely on Him. But only when He saves you will you worship Him.

John Piper

God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

N. T. Wright

Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship.

Bill Vaughan

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

Iris Murdoch

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

John Calvin

For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

Brigitte Bardot

When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.

Edward Abbey

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

Ani Difranco

I'm aware enough, I guess, of American labor history.

Amy Jo Johnson

Grow enough to be consistently happy.

Amber Heard

I had always been a reader and a skeptic, so when I was old enough to break away from organized religion, it just came naturally.

Curtis Jackson

Just be confident. Confidence is the most attractive part of a person. Because if they're not confident enough to show you who they are, you don't even know who they are.

Corey Haim

I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

Thomas Jefferson

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

Tillie Olsen

I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.