Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Burns

If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.

Robert Browning

You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.

Ray Bradbury

If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.

Rainer Maria Rilke

May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith...

Scott Stapp

I'm still going to make mistakes, but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.

Ray Charles

I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

Michael Shermer

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

John Paul Jones

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

John Owen

Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation; and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Allen Tate

All the sea-gods are dead. You, Venus, come home To your salt maidenhead....

Allan Bloom

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

Ann Douglas

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.

Ann Landers

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an alley.

Ann Landers

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.

Andrea Jung

You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.

Andrea Gibson

You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.

Andrea Bocelli

I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.

Rita Mae Brown

piety is like garlic: a little goes a long way.

Stafford Cripps

We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.

Michael Pollan

There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.

John Rocker

I have a group of close personal friends that are all my world. My family is my world. And as long as those people are happy with me, then I'm happy with myself.

Paula Deen

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

Paula Deen

I really didn't have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didn't take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.

Phil Harding

The UK still has time to accelerate the take-up of renewable energy and put the nation on a path towards clean energy that is cheaper, stable and more sustainable. We have a stark choice: We can stay stuck in the last century's boom and bust approach to our economy in the way we consume energy and resources, or create a sustainable, stable and renewable energy infrastructure with the long term environmental and employment benefits that ensue

Martin Schulz

But if you constantly insist only on your own interpretation, it isn't long before it seems patronizing.

Martin Seligman

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.