Famous Quotes & Sayings

Saul Alinsky

The prerequisite for an ideology is possession of a basic truth.

Rick Warren

Possessions only provide temporary happiness.

Kobe Bryant

The big three he took says a lot about him because he hadn't been shooting threes well all night. And he pulls up down there in the stretch, on a big possession and not only takes it but drills it.

Mark Batterson

Don’t accumulate possessions; accumulate experiences!

Paul Harris

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

David Platt

Our possessions can be deadly. They can be subtly deadly.

David Platt

Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

Andre Gide

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

Robert Crais

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

Robert Collier

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...

Richard P. Feynman

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

Richard Hofstadter

There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.

Richard Dawkins

It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions is the word you are struggling hypocritially to avoid.

Richelle Mead

Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one. "That’s what I was supposed to say..." he gasped out. Those were his last words.

Richelle Mead

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

Richelle Mead

I looked him in the eye, "I will always love you." Then plunged the stake into his chest. It wasn't as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one. "That's what I was supposed to say..." he gasped out.

Richelle Mead

Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.

Charles Seaton

What makes them so valuable is their familiarity with our system, ... a specialized location.

Henry Ford

Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself

Tom McCarthy

It's become more valuable to every film that we do.

Jim Rohn

Always do more than what you get paid for. It makes you a valuable person.

David Hare

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Charles Frazier

When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Henry Ellis

The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.

John Eaton

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Alain de Botton

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.