Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

Neel Mukherjee

Nostalgia is a particular affliction of immigrant fiction, and it's led to a kind of sclerosis of the form. I hate nostalgia, and I feel it's good to be aware of the politics of these genres.

Geoff Lawson

It's bad enough when you have got such a terrible affliction once. It's doubly bad when it comes around twice and three times is too bad to think about.

C. S. Lewis

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

Charles Spurgeon

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

Baha'u'llah

Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.

Abu Bakr

The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.

Daniel Defoe

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

Alfred Adler

If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.

Charles Spurgeon

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

Chinua Achebe

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in trouble and then the novel stops.

Chinua Achebe

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership,

Edith Stein

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one.

Dean Acheson

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

Bertrand Russell

As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles.

Paul Woolpert

We're soft. If we don't toughen up, we're in a lot of trouble.

Chad Everett

If not for my family, I would have been in big trouble.

Calvin Coolidge

The things I never say never get me into trouble.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Carol Leifer

I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness

Leonardo Alcivar

We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary.

Jack Rio

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

Beth Moore

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

Bernard of Clairvaux

The reason for our loving God is God.

William Shakespeare

Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.