Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Susan B. Anthony

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Brother Lawrence

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

Brother Lawrence

Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.

E. Stanley Jones

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

E. O. Wilson

No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously.

Doug Larson

A perfect example of the power of prayer is when a blizzard closes the schools on the day of a big exam.

Don DeLillo

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Elif Safak

No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

Jerry Calhoun

Boeing has always provided a competitive package of total compensation that addresses the needs of all employees.

Orson Scott Card

We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.

Robert Kiyosaki

You need to have the courage to fail.

Allan Urlis

There's still some turned off at the meter yet because work still needs to be done to repair those.

John McNamara

Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin.

Clark Yingst

Technically, it looks like no more than a reflex rebound, an oversold bounce.

Malia Davis

See how he looks at her when she's eating. He's totally in love.

Diana Ross

I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.

Jerry Bernstein

We'll have to wait and see what we get. If it looks like Swiss cheese, we won't be happy.

Jay Wright

The timing of this is incredible. I know it looks like we really planned this well.

Dan Brush

We talked to our members about it and they said, 'This sounds crazy,' but the more work we do, it looks like we can pull it off.

Clarke Peters

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

Daniel Radcliffe

I don't really care about how I look.