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.

Alan Autry

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

David Duchovny

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

Arthur Rimbaud

Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.

Stephan Sirard

There are definitely answers only the cab driver can give us.

Toni Schutta

There are common building blocks that every parent needs to be successful. There are also common problems that parents face on a daily basis and the class I developed will help give parents the skills they need, answers to problems they face every day and the confidence to use the skills.

Ricardo Zuniga

We're in a whole new realm of experience here. People expect quick answers based on the paradigm they're used to. But this is not TV.

Mark Cuban

You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.

Darin Shepardson

We were better in a couple of spots, but overall we need to be better mentally prepared for a race. Cross country's a sport where you have to be ready to go when the gun goes off. You're not going to find the answers out of the course.

Charlotte Bronte

And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.

Ron Beard

When he figures out how incredibly good he is, he'll be unstoppable.

Milan Khatri

They are flying blind. A lot of the figures are ancient.

Robert Teeter

There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

Doug Painter

This is welcome news for the hunting industry and for conservationists. These figures show that our industry is out front in innovating new and better gear, and that hunters are willing to spend to further their enjoyment.

Audrey Eu

It's a resource question. We're trying to pass legislation, and we need to know what the figures are.

Kevin Burns

It was good information. I'm hoping we can use our figures to make us manage ours better and keep it. That's my personal opinion.

Carol Jordan

As a result, these newly released figures don't surprise us. Rather they remind us of the importance of the work that all of us are doing to improve the safety of women at this university.

Jonathan Loynes

August's UK public finances figures are, for once, rather better than expected.

Philip Scott

As our figures showed, our focus is on organic growth.