Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Dickens

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Dickens

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

Charles Dickens

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

Ravi Shankar

We spent the day before with him, and even then he looked so peaceful, surrounded by love. George has left so many precious memories and moments in all our lives which will remain with us forever.

Corey Brewer

When you turn on the TV, all you see is George Mason, so you can't really overlook them.

Tom Pecora

We're rooting for George Mason. I'm really getting a kick out of it.

Jerry Palm

The regular-season championship is going to mean something. Say Temple, Saint Joseph's or Xavier wins it, then that team plus George Washington could get in.

Tom Johnson

We?re going to make it so that if George Washington or Mrs. Folsom were to reappear, they would recognize the place.

Tom Izzo

We're going to hone in 95 percent of our time on George Mason. If you don't win the first one, you don't get to the second one. But if you get to the second one and you're not prepared and you don't get out of the weekend, I don't feel like that's where Michigan State is right now.

Mark Turgeon

We knew we were going to have to play a heck of a game. George Mason is a really tough team, and then trying to play them in this building. We just didn't have it tonight.

Whit Ayres

always underestimate George Bush, and they are still doing it.

David Elliot

They don't have much in the way of legal resources remaining other than a clemency petition to President George W. Bush.

Charlize Theron

I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything.

Richard Gritta

They may or they may not, but I wouldn't take it for granted if I were one of these other airlines.

Kent Conrad

It is unacceptable to give this industry special protection -- protection that has never been granted any other industry in our history.

Jeffrey Buttle

I took the lutz for granted and I wasn't focusing.

Mike Sellers

I took a lot of stuff for granted being here. But now, you know, you get older. You get wiser. I've done it all. Now I just sit back and relax and play ball.

Jeffrey Buttle

That was a big mistake and I'll just have to come back from it and learn from it. I think what happened is I took the lutz for granted and I wasn't focusing.

Martina Hingis

Now I look at it differently because I'm a little older - I don't take it for granted anymore. When you're 17, 18, you think it's ongoing, but it's not. Now I know it. I try to do everything possible to not get any injuries. Be more disciplined.

Jared Allen

Sometimes you get down or take something for granted and then I'll stop and remember wow, I'm in an NFL camp.

Jimmy Stewart

So much of what we have taken for granted has been ripped from us,

Tim Woolstencroft

What's interesting is how strong it is in the province of Quebec.

Jinny Sims

The teachers of this province are not going to be broken.

Jane Leavy

Trauma is not the sole province of victims. If that were true, soldiers returning from Afghanistan wouldn't suffer from PTSD.

Nikki Sixx

They're the Liz Taylor and Richard Burton of our era.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay.

Alexa Von Tobel

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

Aneurin Barnard

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.

Craig Roberts

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.

Brian Kerr

But I think Richard will be alright. I don't think it's too serious.

Bill Bryson

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

Ving Rhames

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

Xavier Niel

Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

Al Jarreau

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

Bertrand Russell

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Chet Williamson

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

Charles Rangel

I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.

Dick Wilcox

When we did shoot it, we shot it well. We got a lot of second shots.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I have always been very fortunate in my working life in terms of the, I say that like I've not been fortunate at all in my private life.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Cheryl Strayed

You get to define the terms of your life.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Joe Lhota

Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Benjamin Netanyahu

We wanted peace and we wanted to come to terms with the Israelis.

Charles Caleb Colton

The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.

David Hume

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

William Shakespeare

For in the fatness of these pursy times Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy vices die before thee.

Larry King

Some day, you're going to be vice president.

Sathya Baba

Your virtue is your shield; your vice is the weapon that inflicts wounds on you.

Augustus Hare

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Benjamin Disraeli

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Juvenal

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.